The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Venetian courtyard dates from 1880.

Venetian courtyard, Private Collection

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 793).

Images

Subject

Site

Venetian courtyard, Private Collection

Photograph 1995, M. F. MacDonald, WPP, University of Glasgow

The Corte Bollani in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, Italy. ¹

Technique

Technique

Venetian courtyard, Private Collection

The technique is discussed in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 793).

History

Provenance

• 1990: bought from a private collection by Weyhe, New York dealers, and sold to Dr John Larkin (n/a) and Mrs Larkin.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

No record has been located of an exhibition 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. 793) as 'Venetian courtyard'.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 150, repr. pl. 188, view repr. pl. 189.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 58-59, repr. pl. 66.