The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Calle San Trovaso, Venice dates from 1879/1880.

Calle San Trovaso, Venice, Colby College Museum of Art

The pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 775).

Images

Subject

Site

Calle San Trovaso, Venice, Colby College Museum of Art

Campo San Trovaso is just north of the Zattere, on the Rio San Trovaso, in Venice, Italy. In the middle distance, Whistler showed the Piscina San Agnese, with people at a well. ¹

Technique

Technique

Calle San Trovaso, Venice, Colby College Museum of Art

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 775).

History

Provenance

• 1907: bought from Mrs R. Gurney on 27 March by Agnew's, London art dealers, and sold on 2 April to Wunderlich's, New York art dealers.
• 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 10) and bought by Weitzner, art dealer, for Agnew's, who sold it to J. Biddle;
• 1993: bought by a private collector, Philadelphia.
• 2009: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to the Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

No record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been located.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 775) as 'Calle San Trovaso, Venice'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 77, 79, 190, repr. pl. 81, view repr. pl. 82.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 48-49, repr. pl. 53, view repr. pl. 54.

Websites

• Colby College Museum of Art website at https://www.colby.edu.