The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0771
Under the Frari
Date
Under the Frari dates from 1879/1880.
Under the Frari, Colby College Museum of Art
The pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 771).
Images
Under the Frari, Colby College Museum of Art
Subject
Site
Under the Frari, Colby College Museum of Art
The massive church of the Frari, with its fine bell-towers, was started in 1330. It is the main Franciscan church in Venice, the interior dominated by Titian's magnificent altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin. This is a view of the Frari from the south west, seen from the Calle de1 Scalater, looking through the Campiello San Rocco towards the Sottoportico San Rocco. 1
Technique
Technique
Under the Frari, Colby College Museum of Art
See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 771).
History
Provenance
- 1886/1892: 'selected' by Whistler and probably bought by Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1914: with Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Albert Rouillier Art Galleries, Chicago
- By 1915: bought by Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago;
- By 1938: owned by his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979).
- 1962: bought in March from F. W. Woolworth by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
- 1964: sold in June to Shirley Latter Schlesinger Kaufmann (Mrs Robert B. Kaufmann) (1916-2003).
- 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.
See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 771).
Exhibitions
- 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 17) as 'Under the Frari'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 771) as 'Under the Frari'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 17) as 'Under the Frari'.
Books on Whistler
- Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 70-71, repr. pl. 71, view repr. pl. 69.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 19, 57, repr. pl. 16.
- Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.
Websites
- Colby College Museum of Art website at https://www.colby.edu.
Notes:
1: Grieve 2000 [more], pp. 70-71, repr. pl. 71, view repr. pl. 69.