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

 

YMSM 216
A Gondolier

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

A Gondolier

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • 'A Gondolier' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

A portrait of a Venetian gondolier.

Sitter

Described by Whistler as 'A superb chap ... my swell Gondolier.' 2

Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier, Fogg Art Museum
Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier, Fogg Art Museum

A pastel, Sunset; red and gold - The Gondolier [M.0806], shows a handsome bearded man in broad-brimmed hat in the foreground. It is not known if it was related to this oil painting.

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 216).

2: Whistler to H. E. Whistler, [20 February/March 1880], GUW #06690.

Last updated: 10th November 2019 by Margaret