The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0784
Corte del Paradiso

Corte del Paradiso

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 2002.679
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/4 x 5 3/4" (299 x 147 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'No 38. 5 5/8 x 11 ½' and 'Corte del Paradiso'

Date

Corte del Paradiso dates from 1880.

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
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.

Images

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago

Subject

Site

Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
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
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'.

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Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more], pp. 148-49, repr. pl. 187 as 'Courtyard', view repr. pl. 185.