The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Santa Maria della Salute dates from 1879/1880.

Santa Maria della Salute, Baltimore Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 735).

Images

Subject

Site

Santa Maria della Salute, Baltimore Museum of Art

San Giorgio Maggiore, Giudecca, Sta Maria della Salute and Grand Canal, photograph, M. F. MacDonald, 1997, WPP, Glasgow University Library

From left to right, the Giudecca canal, Santa Maria della Salute, and the Grand canal, Venice.

Technique

Technique

Santa Maria della Salute, Baltimore Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 735).

History

Provenance

• By 1890: owned by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (b. ca 1829-d.1891);
• 1892: possibly one of 'Two sketches' sold at auction, Christie's, London, 27 February 1892 (lot 31) and bought by 'Thomas'.
• 1937: probably sold by Maggs, London, 1937 (lot 123) as 'Nocturne Salute'.
• Date unknown: bought from the Castano Galleries, Boston, by Steven Juvelis (1921-1994);
• 1962: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 22 July 1962 (lot 9) as 'Venice' and bought by Colnaghi's, London dealers;
• Date unknown: sold to R. Hyran Swetzoff, Boston;
• Date unknown: bought by G. S. Abrams, but later exchanged for another drawing.
• 1967: bought from Robert Light, Boston dealer, by the Baltimore Museum of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 735).

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. 735) as 'Santa Maria della Salute'.