The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown dates from 1879/1880.

Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown, Colby College Museum of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 764). The record has been updated.

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Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown, Colby College Museum of Art

Venice, Italy. The Calle Lunga San Barnaba is north of the Fondamente delle Zattere, and parallel to the Rio San Barnaba, which runs westwards from the Grand Canal. ¹

Technique

Technique

Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown, Colby College Museum of Art

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 764).

History

Provenance

• 1903: possibly with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer;
• By 1905: owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), Providence, RI;
• 1914: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York art dealers;
• 1915: sold in April, possibly though Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Chicago art dealer, to Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago;
• By 1938: passed to his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979);
• 1950-1962: consigned to Knoedler's;
• 1962: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 30 November 1962 (lot 28) and bought by Weitzner and Agnew's, London dealers;
• 1965: sold in November to a private collector, but bought back;
• 1967: sold on 11 April to Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York dealer;
• 1969: bought in March by private collectors, New Jersey.
• 2006: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art, The Lunder Collection.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 764).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 8).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 764) as 'Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 8) as 'Little Calle in San Barnaba; gold and brown'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 48, repr. pl. 32, view repr. pl. 33.
• McCann, Justin (ed.), Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College of Art, New York, 2015
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Websites

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