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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 765) as 'A Venetian canal'.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 103-04, pl. 117, view repr. pl. 118.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Denker, Eric, Whistler and his circle in Venice, London, 2003.
  • Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2008-2009, pp. 94-95, repr. p. 104.

Websites

  • Hirshhorn Museum website at https://hirshhorn.si.edu.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret