Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0785
Archway, Venice

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/2 x 7 1/2" (292 x 190 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Archway, Venice

Composition

Archway, Venice, Private Collection
Archway, Venice, Private Collection

Grieve compares the composition to that of Pieter de Hooch's Courtyard of a House in Delft with a Woman and Child (National Gallery, London) of which Whistler had a photograph. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 35-36, repr. pl. 14, work by de Hooch repr. pl. 15.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret