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

 

M.0760
Fondamenta dei Mori

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2016.215
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 8 x 11 3/4" (203 x 298 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Fondamenta dei Mori

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Fondamente dei Mori, Colby College Museum of Art
Fondamente dei Mori, Colby College Museum of Art

Fondamenti dei Mori, in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Venice, Italy. The name comes from the statues of moors built into the facade. 1

Notes:

1: MacDonald 2001 [more] , pp. 43-44, 99, repr. pl. 45, photograph by Carlo Ponti repr. pl. 46.

Last updated: 9th February 2021 by Margaret