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

 

M.0802
Venice

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1893.26a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 15/16 x 12 5/8" (201 x 321 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Venice

Provenance

  • 1893: bought in September from Wunderlich, New York dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be exhibited in any other venue.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret