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

 

M.0759
The Bridge; flesh colour and brown

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Accession Number: 35.644
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/2 x 7 3/4" (293 x 197 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

The Bridge; flesh colour and brown

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 759) as 'The Bridge; flesh colour and brown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 14) as 'The Bridge; flesh colour and brown'.
  • Possibly Exhibition of Pastels, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1888 (cat. no. 84) as 'Venice'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pastels at the Fine Art Society', The Standard, London, 31 January 1881, p. 2.
  • Brighton Gazette, Brighton, 25 October 1888.
  • Anon., 'The Grosvenor Gallery', Illustrated London News, 27 October 1888, p. 27.
  • Anon., [Grosvenor Gallery], Piccadilly, London, 1 November 1888.
  • Anon., [Grosvenor Gallery], Spectator, London, 3 November 1888.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon. [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pastels', Athenaeum, no. 2780, 5 February 1881, p. 206.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 46-47, repr. pl. 29, view repr. pl. 30.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 41, 44, repr. pl. 41, view repr. pl. 42.
  • Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. f.p. 26.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, drawing repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • Thomson, David Croal, catalogue, London, 1925 (cat. no. 15, repr.).
  • MacDonald, M. F., Palaces in the Night, Whistler in Venice, Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 2003 (no catalogue).

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 24 April 1925 (lot 97) as 'A Side Canal, Venice'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Art Prices Current, vol. 4, 1924-1925, no. 4673.

Websites

  • Glasgow Museums website at http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com, as 'A Side Canal, Venice'.

Last updated: 29th May 2021 by Margaret