The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Cemetery dates from between October and December 1879.

The Cemetery, The Frick Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 738).

Images

Subject

Site

The Cemetery, The Frick Collection

A view from the Fondamente Nuove in Venice, or from a boat, looking north to the cemetery island of San Michele. ¹

Technique

Technique

The Cemetery, The Frick Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 738).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer.
• By 1904: owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914);
• 1914: bought from Canfield by Knoedler's, New York art dealers, 12 March 1914;
• 1914: sold to Stephen Carlton Clark (1882-1960), New York, March 1914, but returned in February 1915;
• 1915: bought from Knoedler's by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Frick Collection, New York.

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 36) 'The Cemetery'.
• 1903: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 171) and 1904 (cat. no. 22) as 'The Cemetery, Venice'.
• 1904: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 155).

For further details of History, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 738).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 738) as 'The Cemetery'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 36) 'The Cemetery'.
• Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 171) and 1904 (cat. no. 22) as 'The Cemetery, Venice'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 155).

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Art. Venice Pastels', Observer, London, 6 February 1881.
• St James's Gazette, London, 9 February 1881.
• Wedmore, Frederick, 'Fine Art: Mr Whistler's Pastels', The Academy, vol. 29, 19 February 1881, p. 142
• Fanfulla, 26 February 1881.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Pastels', Athenaeum, 5 February 1881, p. 206.
• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.
• Anon., 'London Exhibitions. A Group of Drawings by Whistler', Art Journal, February 1904, pp. 96-98, at p. 97.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 173-174, 191, repr. pl. 225, view repr. pl. 226.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 25, 42, 44, 55, 103, repr. pl. 43, view repr. pl. 44.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• An Illustrated Catalogue of the Works of Art in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, vol. 4, The Frick Collection, New York, 1957, vol. 4, p. 47.
• The Frick Collection: Drawings, Prints & Later Acquisitions, vol. 9, New York, 2003.

Websites

• The Frick Collection website at https://collections.frick.org/objects/286/the-cemetery-venice.