Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0775
Calle San Trovaso, Venice

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 001.2009
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/8 x 4 5/16" (277 x 125 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
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Calle San Trovaso, Venice

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Calle San Trovaso, Venice, Colby College Museum of Art
Calle San Trovaso, Venice, Colby College Museum of Art

Campo San Trovaso is just north of the Zattere, on the Rio San Trovaso, in Venice, Italy. In the middle distance, Whistler showed the Piscina San Agnese, with people at a well. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more], pp. 77, 79, repr. pl. 81, view repr. pl. 82. MacDonald 2001 [more], pp. 48-49, repr. pl. 53, view repr. pl. 54.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret