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

 

M.0784
Corte del Paradiso

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 2002.679
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/4 x 5 3/4" (299 x 147 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'No 38. 5 5/8 x 11 ½' and 'Corte del Paradiso'

Corte del Paradiso

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Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago
Corte del Paradiso, Art Institute of Chicago

The quiet Corte del Paradiso lies off the Ruga Ciuffa just east of a busy market square, the Campo Santa Maria Formosa, in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, Italy. It is not far from the Riva degli Schiavoni. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 148-49, repr. pl. 187 as 'Courtyard', view repr. pl. 185.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret