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

 

M.0751
From the Café Orientale

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.292
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/4 x 7 7/8" (300 x 200 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'N49. 11 x 7 ¼' and 'Italy'

From the Café Orientale

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From the Café Orientale, Colby College Museum of Art
From the Café Orientale, Colby College Museum of Art

Despite the title given by Whistler in 1881, this is the view from the Ponte de la Pietà, near the Piazza San Marco, and east of the Caffé Orientale. The artist is looking east along the Riva degli Schiavoni to the Arsenal and Public Gardens, in Venice, Italy. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , p. 161, repr. pl. 204, site pl. 205.

Last updated: 4th June 2021 by Margaret