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

 

M.0769
Sotto Portico, San Giacomo

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Number: 2002.524
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 12 x 5" (305 x 127 mm
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'J. A. McNeill Whistler / "Sotto Portico - San Giacomo"/ Venice Pastel/ No/ 27' on original backing, in an unknown hand

Sotto Portico, San Giacomo

Provenance

  • By 1912: owned by William Bradhurst Osgood Field (1870-1947) ;
  • 1947: by descent to a private collector;
  • 2000: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000 (lot 6).
  • 2002: acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 1) as 'Sotto Portico, San Giacomo'.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret