The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Venetian Street dates from 1879/1880.

Venetian Street, private collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 756).

Images

Subject

Site

Venetian Street, private collection

Venice, Italy. The precise site has not been identified, though it may have been in the sestiere of Castello; it may have been destroyed. ¹

Technique

Technique

Venetian Street, private collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 756).

History

Provenance

• 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 12) and bought by Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986) for Agnew's, London art dealers;
• 1965: bought on 1 November by a private collector, returned and sold in June 1967 to a Boston collector.
• 1980: bought from Hirschl and Adler, New York dealers, by Ira Koger (1912-2004) and Nancy Tedder Koger (1915-2005), Florida;
• 1993: sold in March through Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York, to Thomas Colville (n/a), New York art dealer;
• 1993: bought by a private collector.

For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 756).

Exhibitions

No exhibition has been identified 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. 756) as 'Venetian Street'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 131, 202 n. 13.