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

 

M.0817
The Giudecca; note in flesh colour

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Accession Number: AC P.1933.14
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: grey wove paper
Size: 6 1/4 x 9 15/16" (159 x 252 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'N30 9 1/8 x 5'

The Giudecca; note in flesh colour

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The Giudecca; note in flesh colour, Mead Art Museum
The Giudecca; note in flesh colour, Mead Art Museum
The Giudecca; note in flesh colour, Mead Art Museum, photograph 1980s
The Giudecca; note in flesh colour, Mead Art Museum, photograph 1980s
The Giudecca, photograph, M. F. MacDonald, 1990s, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library
The Giudecca, photograph, M. F. MacDonald, 1990s, Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library

Venice, Italy. Whistler may have drawn this from a jetty or a boat off the Molo, looking south-west towards the broad Canale della Giudecca that runs between Venice and the Isola della Giudecca. The Giudecca itself is a string of eight islands. The major building on it is the late Renaissance masterpiece, the Redentore, erected to celebrate the ending of the plague of 1576. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 160-61, repr. pl. 203, view repr. pl. 204.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret