The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A Street in Venice dates from 1879/1880.

A Street in Venice, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 767).

Images

Subject

Site

A Street in Venice, Freer Gallery of Art

The Calle dei Saoneri (Soapmakers), east of the Campo Santa Margherita, Venice, Italy. ¹

Technique

Technique

A Street in Venice, Freer Gallery of Art

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 767).

History

Provenance

• 1904: bought on 7 June from Colnaghi's, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The early provenance is not known. It is just possible that the pastel remained in Whistler's collection until his death, and was sold thereafter by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), but there is no record of this.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime. It is not, as has been suggested, Note in flesh-colour and red m0768.

Due to the conditions of C. L.Freer's bequest, the pastel cannot be loaned to exhibitions elsewhere.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 767) as 'A Street in Venice'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 38, repr. pl. 18, view repr. pl. 19.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 264, pl. 256.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.86a-c.