The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

San Samuel dates from 1879/1880.

San Samuel, private collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 757).

Images

Subject

Site

San Samuel, private collection

San Samuele, and the Campo San Samuele, off the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

This is known to the compilers only from a photograph.

San Samuel, private collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 757).

History

Provenance

• 1880/1890s: owned by Whistler's cousin Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), Baltimore, MD.
• By 1914: owned by Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago;
• By 1938: passed to his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979).
• 1963: bought from F. Woolworth by Knoedler's, New York art dealer, and sold to a private collector.

For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 757).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 30) as 'San Samuel'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 757) as 'San Samuel'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 30).

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, drawing repr. f.p. 52.