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

 

M.0812
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

Venice: Sunset; v.: Bead-stringers

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 812) as 'Venice: Sunset; v.: Bead-stringers'.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 114-16, repr. pl. 137.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 45, repr. pl. 48, view repr. pl. 49.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 259, pl. 246.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.331a-c as 'Venice: Sunrise on the Rialto'.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret