The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier dates from 1880.

Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier, Fogg Art Museum

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 806).

Images

Subject

Site

Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier, Fogg Art Museum

Venice, Italy. The Piazzetta, near San Marco, with Santa Maria della Salute behind, at right, across the Grand Canal. ¹

Technique

Technique

Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier, Fogg Art Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 806).

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: possibly owned by Blanche Elisabeth Marchesi (1863-1940).
• 1926: probably bought from John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929) by Colnaghi's, London dealers, 16 July;
• 1927: probably bought from Alphonse Kann through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970) by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), 1 December;
• 1943: bequeathed by Winthrop to the Fogg Art Museum.

The early provenance is unknown. See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 806).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 46) as 'Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 806) as 'Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (ref. p. 124).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 46) as 'Sunset; red and gold – The Gondolier'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

• 'Venice Pastels', Observer, London, 6 February 1881, supplement p. 1.
• 'Venice in Pastel', St James's Gazette, London, 9 February 1881, p. 13.

Journals 1855-1905

• 'W', 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', Pan, 5 February 1881.

Books on Whistler

• Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, no. 397, p. 216.
• Getscher, Robert Harold, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels, New York, 1991, pp. 122-23, 181-82, no. 42.
• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 165, repr. fig. 213, view repr. p. 164, fig. 212.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 44-45, repr. fig. 47.
• Sutton, Denys, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolours, London, 1966, no. 89, p. 193, repr. pl. 89
• Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 93.
• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Books, General

• Wadley, Nicholas, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, New York, NY, 1991, repr. pl. 12,

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

• Gillerman, Dorothy W., (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 244.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, (ed.), A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, pp. 474-75 (cat. no. 217), repr.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, pp. 490-91, (cat. no. 217), repr.
• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2006, checklist.

COLLECTION:

• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 416-19 (cat. no. 445), repr. p. 417.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.