The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Rialto dates from 1879/1880.

The Rialto, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 733).

Images

Subject

Site

The Rialto, The Hunterian

The Rialto, photograph 1880

The Rialto, photograph 2000

The Rialto, photograph 2000

Venice, Italy: the bridge of the Rialto over the Grand Canal, seen from a window over the Sottoportico Pirieta on the Campo San Bartolomeo, with a view of the Campanile of Giovanni Elemosinario in San Polo beyond. ¹

Technique

Composition

The Rialto, The Hunterian

The sheet of paper originally enclosed the copper-plate of The Rialto [199], which shows the view of the bridge from the other side of the Grand Canal.

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 733).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at the time of his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executric Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It was not 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. 733) as 'The Rialto'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 82-83, etching repr. pl. 88.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 73-75, repr. pl. 86, view repr. pl. 87.

Books, General

• Gruetzner Robins, Anna., Walter Sickert: Drawings. Theory and Practice: Word and Image, Aldershot, 1996, pp. 12, 94 note 7.

Journals 1906-Present

• Grieve, Alastair, 'The Sites of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, vol. 13, March 1996, pp. 28-29.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.