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

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M.0765
A Venetian canal

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 66.5529
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 7/8 x 8" (301 x 204 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: '5'; v.: 'S1749', both in unknown hands

A Venetian canal

Provenance

  • Before 1935: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ;
  • 1935: bequeathed to his widow, Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961) , and daughter, Mrs James Douglass Sharpe;
  • 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 13, repr.) and bought by Graham, New York art dealer, for Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (1899-1981) ;
  • 1966: given to the Hirshhorn Museum.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

Ther is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret