Date
Nocturne – San Giorgio dates from 1880.

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 803).
Images

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Site

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art
San Giorgio Maggiore stands on an island south of Venice, dominating the view south from the Riva degli Schiavoni. It takes its name from the Benedictine monastery founded in the l0th century. The monastery was suppressed in the l9th century and turned into a barracks. The church, designed by Palladio, was begun in 1566, and completed after his death, in 1610.
Technique
Technique

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art
Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 803).
History
Provenance
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1882: bought from Whistler by Louisine Waldron Havemeyer (1855-1929);
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1917: given to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
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1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions

Nocturne – San Giorgio, Freer Gallery of Art
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1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 18) as 'Nocturne – San Giorgio'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 803) as 'Nocturne – San Giorgio'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
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Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 18) as 'Nocturne – San Giorgio'.
Journals 1855-1905
- Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
- Anon., 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, 9 February 1881, p. 13.
- Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice;or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.
Books on Whistler
- Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 162, repr. pl. 207, view repr. pl. 208.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 62, repr. pl. 72, view repr. pl. 73.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 260, pl. 249.
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Ayako Ono, ホイッスラー展. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyōto, 2014, and Yokohama Museum of Art, 2014–2015, p. 260, pl. 249 (not exhibited).
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1917.6a-c, as 'Nocturne: San Giorgio'.