The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae dates from 1880.

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 783).

Images

Subject

Site

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, Freer Gallery of Art

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, photo, 1995, M. F. MacDonald, WPP, University of Glasgow

The Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista is on the Calle della Laca, north of San Rocco and the Frari, at the centre of an area of Venice encircled to west of the Grand Canal. It is one of the five great Scuole, a meeting and prayer house for one of the confraternities into which Venetians banded together, bound by common origins or occupations, for mutual and charitable benefit. The exterior is exquisite, with intricate carving and iron-work, a masterpiece of the Venetian Renaissance. ¹

Technique

Technique

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae, Freer Gallery of Art

Discussed in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 783).

History

Provenance

• 1902: bought in August from William Burrell (1861-1958), Glasgow, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 783).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 12) as 'San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae'.
• 1887: possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 180).
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 112).
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 165).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 783) as 'San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 12) as 'San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae'.
• Possibly Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 180).
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 112).
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 165).

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.
• The Country Gentleman , 5 February 1881.
• 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, 9 February 1881, p. 13.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 69-70, repr. pl. 66, view repr. pl. 67.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 52, 53-54, repr. pl. 57.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 262, pl. 251.
• Zorzi, Rosella Mamoli, Elizabeth Anne McCauley, and Erica Hirschler, Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2006, p. 269, fig. 226 (not exhibited).

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.145a-c.