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

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M.0782
The Staircase; note in red

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.174a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 5/16 x 7 15/16" (287 x 202 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'N11 11 x 7 ¾'
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The Staircase; note in red

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The Staircase; note in red, Freer Gallery of Art
The Staircase; note in red, Freer Gallery of Art

Venice, Italy. The courtyard of the Palazzo Contarini della Porta di ferro, in the sestiere of Castello. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more], pp. 146-48, repr. pl. 182, old photograph of the staircase repr. pl. 183.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret