The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

View in Venice, looking towards the Molo dates from 1879/1880.

View in Venice, looking towards the Molo, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 742). The record has been updated.

Images

Subject

Site

View in Venice, looking towards the Molo, Private Collection

A view of the Riva degli Schiavoni and the campanile of San Marco in Venice, looking west from the Casa Jankowitz.

Technique

Technique

View in Venice, looking towards the Molo, Private Collection

See the description in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 742).

History

Provenance

• 1938: possibly sold at auction, Robinson and Fisher's, London, 7 April 1938 (lot 25) as 'View in Venice, looking towards the Molo', and bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
• 1939: sold on 28 August to Carroll Carstairs (1889-1948), New York art dealer.
• 1943: sold from the collection of James Carstairs, Ardmore, PA, at Parke-Bernet, New York, 22 May 1943 (lot 126, repr.) as 'View across the lagoon', and bought by 'Harold Carstairs';
• 1944: bought by Macbeth, New York dealers, and sold in January 1944 to Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969), of Detroit, and Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
• Before 1967: acquired by Ernest Carlton Kanzler (1892-1967), Detroit;
• 1969: sold from his estate, at Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 May 1969 (lot 83) and bought by a private collector;
• 1990: sold at auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 May 1990 (lot 122), and bought by a collector in Florida.
• 2000: sold at auction, Sotheby's, 24 May 2000 (lot 87).
• 2012: with Peter Nahum, Leicester Galleries, London.

The early provenance is unknown and there are gaps in the later provenance.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 742) as 'View in Venice, looking towards the Molo'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 111, repr. pl. 131.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 48.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 83, repr.).

SALE:

• Sotheby's, 24 May 2000 (lot 87, repr.).

Websites

• Peter Nahum at Leicester Galleries, website, 12 January 2012; also referenced in The Victorian Web, website.