The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0143
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza'
Date
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza' dates from 1853/1854, when Whistler was at USMA West Point.
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 143).
Images
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection
Subject
Site
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection
Vicenza, North Italy, copied from a drawing by James Duffield Harding (1798-1863).
Technique
Composition
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection
A copy of 'Vicenza, North Italy' by James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), which was published in Sketches at Home and Abroad (London, 1836, frontispiece). Harding's original monochrome drawing dates from 1834 and is in Tate Britain. 1
Technique
The original was monochrome, but Whistler may have had access to a hand-coloured impression.
Conservation History
It has darkened considerably.
History
Provenance
- 1853/1854: given to Henry Martyn Lazelle (1832-1917);
- 1917-present: passed by family descent to a private collection.
Lazelle was born in Enfield, MA, son of Joseph amd Roxanna Laselle or Lazell. Unlike Whistler, he graduated from West Point in 1855. During the American Civil War he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 8th Infantry Regiment. He resigned from the army in 1864. He married Ann Rebecca Gooding Hollingsworth (1836–1893) and they had two sons, Jacob Hollingsworth Gaines Lazelle (1866-1898) and Horace Gibbs Lazelle (1870-1957). He died in Canada in 1917. Their younger son, Horace Gibbs Lazelle, married Martha Kemble Wentworth (1878-1973), and they had one daughter, Barbara Hollingsworth Lazelle (1907-2004).
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 143).
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 143) as "Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza'".
Notes:
1: Graphite and gouache on paper, 375 x 264 mm, Acc. No. T00997, repr. Tate website.