The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
1880
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel and conté crayon on brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20 × 29.69 cm (7 7/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.186
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 1995, no. 805
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Reverend George F. Weld, Hingham, Massachusetts; Anna Sears Amory (his wife), Massachusetts; (Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts); (Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York); James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1947
Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels by Whistler, MacBeth Gallery, New York, 1947, no. 35
1959
James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, Connecticut, 1959, no. 46
1960
James McNeill Whistler: An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1960, p. 79, no. 84
1969
James McNeill Whistler, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, 1969, no. 83
1978
American Pastels from the Corocran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978
1983
Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 26
1984
Venice: The American View, 1860-1920, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1984-1985, pp. 142-143, no. 92, repro
Notes, Harmonies and Nocturnes, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1984, no. 83
1995
James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995, p. 302, no. 113
2003
Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 81, no. 27, repro
2007
Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007
2015
Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 73, no. 462.
1984
Curry, David Park. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1984, p. 260.
Lovell, Margaretta M., VENICE: THE AMERICAN VIEW 1860-1920, Fine Arts Museums of SF, 1984: 142, no.92.
1991
Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. London: Walker Books, 1991, p. 99.
Getscher, Robert. James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Pastels. New York: George Braziller, 1991, p. 115, no. 38.
1995
MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, p. 302, no. 805.
2000
Grieve, Alastair. Whistler's Venice. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000, p. 119, fig. 142.
Inscriptions
lower right in black crayon: [the artist's butterfly]
Wikidata ID
Q64580672