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

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Venice: Sunset; v.: Bead-stringers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.331a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: grey wove paper
Size: 4 1/8 x 10 5/8" (105 x 270 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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Venice: Sunset; v.: Bead-stringers

Technique

v.: Bead-stringers, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Bead-stringers, Freer Gallery of Art

A building with balconies and arched windows, and women, was drawn sideways on under the lagoon, a variant on the scene drawn on the back of the sheet.

MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 812).

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret