The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Nocturne: ships and gondolas, Venice dates from 1880.

Nocturne: ships and gondolas, Venice, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 801).

Images

Subject

Site

Nocturne: ships and gondolas, Venice, The Hunterian

A view looking across the lagoon from the Riva degli Schiavoni with the domes of Santa Maria della Salute and the grand canal on the right, in Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Nocturne: ships and gondolas, Venice, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 801).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1958: bequeathed by Miss R.Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It is not known if it was exhibited 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. 801) as 'Nocturne: ships and gondolas, Venice'.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 133, repr. pl. 134.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• James Whistler. Zoran Music. Venecia, IVAM, Valencia, 2005, p. 142, repr.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.