The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A Venetian canal dates from 1879/1880.

A Venetian canal, Hirshhorn Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 765).

Images

Subject

Site

A Venetian canal, Hirshhorn Museum

Venice, Italy: the Rio dei Lustraferi, in the sestiere of Cannaregio, looking south from the Fondamenta della Sensa (close to where Whistler drew Fondamente dei Mori m0760). ¹

Technique

Technique

A Venetian canal, Hirshhorn Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 765).

History

Provenance

• Before 1935: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935);
• 1935: bequeathed to his widow, Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961), and daughter, Mrs James Douglass Sharpe;
• 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 13, repr.) and bought by Graham, New York art dealer, for Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (1899-1981);
• 1966: given to the Hirshhorn Museum.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

Ther is no record of an exhibition 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. 765) as 'A Venetian canal'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 103-04, pl. 117, view repr. pl. 118.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Denker, Eric, Whistler and his circle in Venice, London, 2003.
• Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2008-2009, pp. 94-95, repr. p. 104.

Websites

• Hirshhorn Museum website at https://hirshhorn.si.edu.