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

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Calle San Trovaso, Venice

Provenance

  • 1907: bought from Mrs R. Gurney on 27 March by Agnew's, London art dealers, and sold on 2 April to Wunderlich's, New York art dealers.
  • 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 10) and bought by Weitzner, art dealer, for Agnew's, who sold it to J. Biddle;
  • 1993: bought by a private collector, Philadelphia.
  • 2009: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to the Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

No record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been located.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret