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

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M.0769
Sotto Portico, San Giacomo

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Number: 2002.524
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 12 x 5" (305 x 127 mm
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'J. A. McNeill Whistler / "Sotto Portico - San Giacomo"/ Venice Pastel/ No/ 27' on original backing, in an unknown hand

Sotto Portico, San Giacomo

Technique

The Virginia website gives the medium as pastel and charcoal, rather than pastel and chalk.

Frame

20 × 13 1/2 × 1 1/2 " (50.8 × 34.29 × 3.81 cm).

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret