The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Venice Harbour dates from 1879/1880.

Venice Harbour, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 726).

Images

Subject

Site

Venice Harbour, Freer Gallery of Art

The city of Venice, Italy. This was painted from the west end of the Public Gardens, looking north-west to the Riva degli Schiavoni. The pastel The Giudecca - Winter; grey and blue m0739 shows a similar view. At left are the Royal gardens, the Campanile and the Doge's Palace and continues, at right, to what is now the Riva dei Sette Martiri. ¹

Technique

Technique

Venice Harbour, Freer Gallery of Art

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

• 1905: bought in June from Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 726).

Exhibitions

By the terms of Freer's will, this cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 726) as 'Venice Harbour'.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 140.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 140.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 259, pl. 247.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.330a-b as 'Venice; Sunset on Harbour'.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.