Date
Corte del Paradiso dates from 1880.

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 784). The entry has been revised and updated.
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Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
Subject
Site

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
The quiet Corte del Paradiso lies off the Ruga Ciuffa just east of a busy market square, the Campo Santa Maria Formosa, in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, Italy. It is not far from the Riva degli Schiavoni. 1
Technique
Technique

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 784); and further details in Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 22) as 'Corte del Paradiso'.
History
Provenance
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By 1886: Cyril Flower (1843-1907), the first Lord Battersea, to at least 1905.
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1911: by family descent from John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago, to Harold Brent Wrenn (1878-1938), John Henry Wrenn (1913-1981), and his wife, Mrs. J. H. Wrenn;
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1982: sold at auction, Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 10), to The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama;
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1999: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 26 May 1999 (lot 17);
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2002: sold by Fine Art Society, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago (Walter Aitken, Margaret Day Blake, Harold Joachim Memorial, Celia and David Hilliard, Julius Lewis, and Sara R. Shorey endowments; Sandra L. Grung Fund; restricted gifts of William Vance and Pamela Kelley Armour; through prior acquisitions of Katherine Kuh).
Exhibitions
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1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 52) as 'Courtyard'.
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1903-1904: 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. 24) as 'Venice' and 1904 (cat. no. 24).
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1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 61) as 'A Venetian Courtyard'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 784) as 'Corte del Paradiso'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
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Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 52) as 'Courtyard'.
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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. 24) as 'Venice'.
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Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 61) as 'A Venetian Courtyard'.
Books on Whistler
- Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 148-49, repr. pl. 187 as 'Courtyard', view repr. pl. 185.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 52, 99-100, repr. pl. 109.
- Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.
Catalogues 1906-Present
EXHIBITION:
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American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va, 1997-1998.
- McCullagh, Suzanne Folds, and Melissa Gustin, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2013 - 2014, pp. 9, 20, 146-148, 159, 168, 226-227, cat. no. 62 (repr.).
- Hausberg, Meg, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, checklist para. 5, cat. no. 4.1 repr.) online edition.
SALE:
- Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 10).
- Christie's, New York, 26 May 1999 (lot 17).
Journals 1906-Present
- Grieve, Alastair, Corte del Paradiso, 1880, The Fine Art Society Newsletter, Spring, London, 2000, p. 22.
- Tedeschi, Martha, Corte del Paradiso, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2004, pp. 80-81 (repr.).
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, Richmond, VA, 2004, pp. 87-88 (repr.).
Websites
- Hausberg, Meg, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, checklist para. 5, cat. no. 4.1 repr.) online edition.
- Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 22).