The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0725
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
Date
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice dates from between late 1879 and Fall 1880.
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Private Collection
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 725). The history of the work has been updated.
Images
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Private Collection
Subject
Site
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Private Collection
Santa Maria della Salute and the entrance to the Grand Canal from the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, Italy.
Technique
Conservation History
The paper is now (2018) darkened and areas like the church, which was always very lightly painted, are ghost-like.
History
Provenance
- Date unknown: probably with James Connell & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland.
- By 1905: Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow, Scotland;
- 1924: sold by Mrs MacGeorge through T. & R. Annan & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow, to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London;
- 1924: sold by Colnaghi's, in partnership with Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, to a private collection.
- [1959: with M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York;
- By 1960: Mr and Mrs Charles C. Henderson, New Orleans, Louisiana;
- 1975: sold at Christie's, London, 28 February 1975 (lot 16) as 'The Salute, Venice', and bought by Paul F. Walter (1935-2017);
- 2017: Christie's, New York, 26-27 September 2017 (lot 344) as 'Santa Maria della Salute, Venice'.
Exhibitions
- Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat no. 45) as 'The Salute, Venice, from the Riva Schiavoni', oil [sic].
No exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been identified.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 725) as 'Santa Maria della Salute, Venice'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat no. 45) as 'The Salute, Venice, from the Riva Schiavoni', oil [sic].
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 202, repr. p. 269.
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, repr. f. p. 260.
Catalogues 1906-Present
EXHIBITION:
- Early Masters of Modern Art, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1959 (cat. no. 56).
- Young, A. McLaren, James McNeill Whistler, Arts Council Gallery, London, and Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1960 (cat. no. 86).
- New Orleans Collects: Early Masters of Modern Art, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1968 (cat. no. 53).
SALE:
- Christie's, London, 28 February 1975 (lot 16) as 'The Salute, Venice'.
- Christie's, New York, 26-27 September 2017 (lot 344) as 'Santa Maria della Salute, Venice'.