The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0777
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey
Date
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey dates from 1880.
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 777).
Images
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection
Subject
Site
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection
The Rio San Barnaba runs east from the Carmine to the Campo San Barnaba, towards the Ca' Rezzonico, in Venice, Italy. Here, Whistler drew the Rio del Malpaga, looking west from the Ponte del Malpaga, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro. 1
Technique
Technique
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection
For details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 777).
History
Provenance
- 1903: possibly with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer;
- By 1904: said to have been owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
- By 1905: owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914);
- 1914: sold on 12 March to Knoedler's, New York dealers, who then sold it to Stephen Carlton Clark (1882-1960);
- 1927: returned to Knoedler's in February and sold on 3 May to Scott and Fowles, New York dealers.
- Date unknown: acquired by Mrs Esther Slater Kerrigan (1892-1951), New York;
- 1942: sold at auction, Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 January 1942 (lot 29) and bought by Scott and Fowles;
- 1946: sold at auction, Scott and Fowles sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 March 1946 (lot 23, repr.), and bought by Macbeth, New York dealers;
- 1946: bought by Mrs Hotchkiss, later Carolyn Glendenin Foulke (née Ryan) (1910-1987), New York and (in the 1960s) Florida;
- 1985: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1985 (lot 132, repr.) and bought by the Graham Galleries, New York.
- 1994: bought from a private collection by The Fine Art Society, London.
Exhibitions
- 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 42) as 'Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey'.
- 1903: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 29) as 'Canal, Venice'.
- 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 126) as 'Un canal. Venise'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 777) as 'Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 42) as 'Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey'.
- Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 29) as 'Canal, Venice'.
- Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 126) as 'Un canal. Venise'.
Books on Whistler
- Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 44-45, repr. pl. 28, view repr. pl. 27.
- Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 53.
Notes:
1: Grieve 2000 [more], pp. 44-45, repr. pl. 28, view repr. pl. 27; the view is now different, with a new bridge, the Ponte Lombarda, crossing the Rio.