Little Venice

1880

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows a landscape with a body of water in the foreground and a distant horizon with various buildings and towers. Brushstrokes are subtle and delicate, creating fine lines and a minimalist style. The color palette is monochrome sepia, and there are boats and poles in the water. The sky has light, wispy clouds in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8516

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 238, state ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 61901). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

2003

  • "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 183.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 238, state ii/ii.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); on paper, lower right on the verso: (butterfly) / Selected proof; on tab: (butterfly imp.)

Watermarks

[none]

Wikidata ID

Q65021933

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