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James McNeill Whistler

The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, 1880

Not on View

Medium

pastel and conté crayon on brown wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20 × 29.69 cm (7 7/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 805

Accession Number

2014.136.186

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

lower right in black crayon: [the artist's butterfly]

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Doll & Richards
Parmelee, James

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: Notes, Harmonies and Nocturnes, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1984, no. 83

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

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.

1984: Lovell, Margaretta M., VENICE: THE AMERICAN VIEW 1860-1920, Fine Arts Museums of SF, 1984: 142, no.92.

1991: Getscher, Robert. James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Pastels. New York: George Braziller, 1991, p. 115, no. 38.

1991: Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. London: Walker Books, 1991, p. 99.

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.