The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Salute – Sundown dates from 1880.

Salute – Sundown, The Hunterian

This pastel is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 809).

Images

Subject

Site

Salute – Sundown, The Hunterian

Santa Maria della Salute is in the distance, to left, with the entrance to the Grand Canal to right, as seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, Italy.

Technique

Technique

Salute – Sundown, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 809).

History

Provenance

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

Exhibitions

Salute – Sundown, The Hunterian

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 48) as 'Salute – Sundown'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 809) as 'Salute – Sundown'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 48) as 'Salute – Sundown'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., [Godwin, E. W.], 'Review of Venice Pastels Exhibition', British Architect, 4 February 1881, pp. 59-64.

Books on Whistler

• Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 116, repr. pl. 139.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 56-57, repr. pl. 63 and 64.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Lochnan, Katharine, Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Britain, London, 2004-2005 (cat. no. 94).

Websites

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