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

 

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                    Venetian Palace, Gallatin 1912 repr.
Venetian Palace, Gallatin 1912 repr.

Whistler sat in a gondola looking east under a bridge, the Ponte de l'Anzolo, to sketch the Palazzo Soranzo in the sestiere of San Marco/Castello, in Venice, Italy. A detail of the same building is seen in Venetian Palace [M.0730]. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , p. 97, repr. pl. 109 as 'Sketch of the Palazzo Soranzo', view repr. pl. 110.

Last updated: 13th December 2018 by Margaret