A Canal in Venice, c. 1879-1880

Not on View

pastel and chalk on brown wove paper

sheet: 29.05 × 20.16 cm (11 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

2015.19.769

James McNeill Whistler (artist after) American, 1834 - 1903

lower right in pastel: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 5 x 6 - 11 x 7 1/2 old

printed lower center verso in black ink on adhered label: 12581

Mabel Stevens Smithers, Greenwich, Connecticut; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Smithers, Mabel Stevens

1978: American Pastels from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 27

2003: Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 83, no. 30, repro

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. 463.