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

 

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Canal, San Cassiano

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
Accession Number: 1963.49
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/2 x 6 3/4" (292 x 171 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Ponte Raspi= / o Sansoni - San Cassiano'

Canal, San Cassiano

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Canal, San Cassiano, Westmoreland Museum of Art
Canal, San Cassiano, Westmoreland Museum of Art

The title 'Canal, San Canciano' given in 1881 is misleading, which is surprising, since it is correctly identified in the inscription. It is a small canal drawn from the Ponte Raspi o Sansoni near San Cassiano in the sestiere de San Polo, in Venice, Italy. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 63-64, repr. pl. 54 as 'Canal, San Canciano', view repr. pl. 55. MacDonald 2001 [more] , pp. 52-53, repr. pl. 58 as 'San Cassiano', view repr. pl. 59.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret