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

 

M.0777
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 7/8 x 8" (302 x 203 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey

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Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection
Little Canal, San Barnaba; flesh colour and grey, private collection

The Rio San Barnaba runs east from the Carmine to the Campo San Barnaba, towards the Ca' Rezzonico, in Venice, Italy. Here, Whistler drew the Rio del Malpaga, looking west from the Ponte del Malpaga, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 44-45, repr. pl. 28, view repr. pl. 27; the view is now different, with a new bridge, the Ponte Lombarda, crossing the Rio.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret