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

 

M.0794
The Old Marble Palace

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.123a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: grey wove paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 6 3/16" (300 x 157 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'x 5 1/2' (inscription cut off at left)

The Old Marble Palace

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The Old Marble Palace, Freer Gallery of Art
The Old Marble Palace, Freer Gallery of Art

The south-east corner of a tall, narrow palace on the Rio de San Zulian, looking north-west from near the Ponte de l'Anzolo, Venice, Italy. 1 Looking the other way, Whistler drew Venetian Palace [M.0729].

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 96-97, repr. pl. 107, view repr. pl. 98.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret