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

 

M.0762
The Tobacco Warehouse

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 66.5530
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown paper
Size: 12 1/16 x 8 7/16" (307 x 214 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'No 25/ 11 x 5' upside down; v.: '48324 / B274/ 89=11=(?)/ cat 11./ UVF.1/ JH 63.44/ JH3193' in unknown hands

The Tobacco Warehouse

Site

The Tobacco Warehouse, Hirschhorn Museum
The Tobacco Warehouse, Hirschhorn Museum

Venice, Italy: the tenement, a Renaissance building intended to house the poor, was on the Fondamenta dei Cereri; Whistler drew it from the Ponte Rosso, west of the Campo Santa Margherita. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 56-57, repr. pl. 44, view repr. pl. 43.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret