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

 

M.0797
Nocturnal note: Venice

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8819
Medium: black crayon
Support: buff wove paper
Size: 5 11/16 x 5 1/4-5 3/8" (144 x 134-137 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Nocturnal note by Whistler.', possibly by Otto Bacher, and stamped 'Otto' (Bacher)

Nocturnal note: Venice

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 797) as 'Nocturnal note: Venice'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • James Whistler. Zoran Music. Venecia, IVAM, Valencia, 2005, p. 143, repr..
  • The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2006.

Websites

  • National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret