The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Nocturnal note: Venice dates from 1880, and was, according to the collector's mark, owned by the artist Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909).

Nocturnal note: Venice, National Gallery of Art, DC

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 797).

Images

Subject

Site

Nocturnal note: Venice, National Gallery of Art, DC

A view of Santa Maria della Salute from the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Nocturnal note: Venice, National Gallery of Art, DC

This is discussed in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 797).

History

Provenance

• 1880: given by Whistler to Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909);
• 1910: sold at auction, AAA, New York, 2 March 1910 (lot 166) as 'Nocturnal Note: Venice'.
• 1920: bought from Albert Eugene Gallatin (1882-1952)New York, by Knoedler's, New York dealers, and sold to Charles B. Eddy (1872-1951), Plainfield, NJ, in March (#WC1379 and 1470) but returned;
• 1921: on 26 July, Colnaghi, London dealers, took half shares in the drawing;
• 1928: bought by Charles Sessler (1854-1935), dealer, Philadelphia, who sold it to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) in December 1928;
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, but still housed with the Rosenwald Collection at Alverthorpe;
• 1980: moved to the National Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 797) as 'Nocturnal note: Venice'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• James Whistler. Zoran Music. Venecia, IVAM, Valencia, 2005, p. 143, repr..
• The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2006.

Websites

• National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.