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

 

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The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Foundation for American Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1992.162
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 8" (300 x 203 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'N9 11 x 7 ½'

The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown

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The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
The Zattere; harmony in blue and brown, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago

The Fondamenta delle Zattere runs beside the Canale della Giudecca, on the south side of the city of Venice, Italy. Whistler took his stance on the Ponte Lungo looking west along the quayside. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 76, repr. pl. 78, view repr. pl. 78. MacDonald 2001 [more] , pp. 49-50, 52, repr. pl. 55, photograph by Archivio Filippi repr. pl. 56.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret