The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sunset; red and gold – Salute dates from 1880.

Sunset; red and gold – Salute, The Hunterian

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 810).

Images

Subject

Site

Sunset; red and gold – Salute, The Hunterian

Santa Maria della Salute is in the distance, with the entrance to the Grand Canal to right, as seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Sunset; red and gold – Salute, The Hunterian

According to Edwyn ('Ted') 0swald Inglis (b. 1884) he was present when this was bought by his mother, Agnes Denny Inglis (1843-1925), but the artist 'had not been altogether pleased with it' and kept it 'for many months' while retouching it, eventually signed and returned it. ¹

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 810)

History

Provenance

• ca 1895/1900: bought by Agnes Inglis née Denny (1843-1925), Glasgow;
• 1925: passed by family descent to her son Edwyn ('Ted') 0swald Inglis (b. 1884), advocate, Sheriff-Substitute of Renfrew and Bute at Greenock from 1940;
• 1954: bought from Inglis by the University of Glasgow.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 810). The entry has been revised. Note that this was not part of the Birnie Philip Gift or Bequest, but was bought by the University in 1954.

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 49) as 'Sunset; red and gold – Salute'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 810) as 'Sunset; red and gold – Salute'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 49) as 'Sunset; red and gold – Salute'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, 9 February 1881, p. 13.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 115-16, 191, repr. pl. 138.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 55.
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 93.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 52, repr. f.p. 52

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005 (cat. no. 92).

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.