The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Archway, Venice dates from 1880.

Archway, Venice, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 785).

Images

Subject

Site

Archway, Venice, Private Collection

A scene in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy: an archway off the Campo Santa Margherita leading to the Sotoportego e Corte del Calderer. ¹ At the other end of the square Whistler drew the Campanile Santa Margherita m0773.

Technique

Composition

Archway, Venice, Private Collection

Grieve compares the composition to that of Pieter de Hooch's Courtyard of a House in Delft with a Woman and Child (National Gallery, London) of which Whistler had a photograph. ²

History

Provenance

• 1889: said to have been with Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer.
• By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) until at least 1910.
• Date unknown: said to have been with Harlow, McDonald, New York dealers.
• 1934: deposited by Mrs C. J. Sullivan with Macbeth, New York dealers;
• 1935: probably bought by Edwin A. Seasongood (1876-1953), financier, New York;
• 1951: sold at auction, Seasongood sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1951 (lot 302).
• 1960: sold at auction, Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 February 1960 (lot 62, repr.). and bought by the Kennedy Galleries;
• 1974: sold to a private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 785).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 127).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 785) as 'Archway, Venice'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 127).

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 35-36, repr. pl. 14, view repr. pl. 13.