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

 

Fish Market, San Barnaba

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 761) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 21) as 'Further details are given in MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 761) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
  • 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Wenice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite,' Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 40, pl. 20.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

  • Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1932 (lot 23) as 'Une place à Venise'.
  • Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1981 (lot 218, repr.) as 'Fish Market, San Barnaba'.
  • Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2001 (lot 18).

Websites

  • Colby College Museum of Art website at https://www.colby.edu/museum.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret