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

 

Corte del Paradiso

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 784) as 'Corte del Paradiso'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 52) as 'Courtyard'.
  • Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 24) as 'Venice'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 61) as 'A Venetian Courtyard'.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 148-49, repr. pl. 187 as 'Courtyard', view repr. pl. 185.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 52, 99-100, repr. pl. 109.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va, 1997-1998.
  • McCullagh, Suzanne Folds, and Melissa Gustin, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2013 - 2014, pp. 9, 20, 146-148, 159, 168, 226-227, cat. no. 62 (repr.).
  • Hausberg, Meg, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, checklist para. 5, cat. no. 4.1 repr.) online edition.

SALE:

  • Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 10).
  • Christie's, New York, 26 May 1999 (lot 17).

Journals 1906-Present

  • Grieve, Alastair, Corte del Paradiso, 1880, The Fine Art Society Newsletter, Spring, London, 2000, p. 22.
  • Tedeschi, Martha, Corte del Paradiso, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2004, pp. 80-81 (repr.).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, Richmond, VA, 2004, pp. 87-88 (repr.).

Websites

  • Hausberg, Meg, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, checklist para. 5, cat. no. 4.1 repr.) online edition.
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 22).

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret