The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Fish Market, San Barnaba dates from 1879/1880.

Fish Market, San Barnaba, Colby College Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 761).

Images

Subject

Site

Fish Market, San Barnaba, Colby College Museum of Art

Market, San Barnaba, photograph, 2012, WPP

The fish market on the rio di Ca' Foscari, viewed from the front of the church of San Pantalon. It is close to the Campo Santa Margarita, Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Fish Market, San Barnaba, Colby College Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 761).

History

Provenance

• 1932: collection of Jules Strauss (1861-1943), sold at auction, Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1932 (lot 23) as 'Une place à Venise'.
• 1981: 'property of a lady', sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1981 (lot 218, repr.) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba', bought by Agnew's, London art dealers;
• 1981/1982: sold to a private collector.
• 2001: collection of Stanley Joseph Seeger (1930-2011), New York, sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2001 (lot 18).
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to the Colby College Museum of Art.

The early provenance is unknown. ¹

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 21) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 761) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 21) as 'Further details are given in MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 761) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.
• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 40, pl. 20.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

• Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1932 (lot 23) as 'Une place à Venise'.
• Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1981 (lot 218, repr.) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.
• Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2001 (lot 18).

Websites

• Colby College Museum of Art website at https://www.colby.edu/museum.