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

 

M.0755
Winter Evening

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1917.5a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 7 15/16" (300 x 201 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'N.11- 11 x 7'; backing originally inscribed 'Winter Evening' and signed with butterfly

Winter Evening

Site

Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art
Winter Evening, Freer Gallery of Art

A view from the Ponte de l'Avogaria, looking south along the Rio de l'Avogaria to the Ponte Sartorio, in one of Whistler's favourite hunting grounds, to west and south of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 48-49, pl. 35, view repr. pl. 34. MacDonald 2001 [more] , pp. 27, 39, 55, 59, repr. pl. 27, view repr. pl. 26.

Last updated: 9th February 2021 by Margaret