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

 

M.0805
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Corcoran Collection / National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 41.31
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 11/16 x 11 5/8" (196 x 296 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

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The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, National Gallery of Art
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, National Gallery of Art
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, 1990s, M. F. MacDonald, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library, 1990s
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, 1990s, M. F. MacDonald, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library, 1990s
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, 1997, M. F. MacDonald, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, 1997, M. F. MacDonald, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library

Venice, Italy. Palladio's great church, San Giorgio Maggiore on the island of the Giudecca, was drawn from the Riva degli Schiavoni, a little west of the Casa Jankowitz. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 119-20, repr. pl. 142 as 'San Giorgio', view repr. pl. 143.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret