- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.617
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Sunset; Red and Gold--The Gondolier
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Riva degli Schiavoni at Sunset
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1880
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308072
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pastel on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.2 x 28.5 cm (7 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black crayon and orange pastel, l.r.: butterfly monogram
- inscription: recto, lower right, a butterfly monogram
- Provenance
- Mme. Blanche Marchesi; J.P. Heseltine; his sale to Colnaghi, London, July 16, 1926; Alphonse Kann; his sale to Grenville L. Winthrop through Martin Birnbaum, December 1, 1927; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.617
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"Art: Venice Pastels", The Observer [London] (London, England, February 6, 1881), supplement section, p. 1
"Mr. Whistler's Venice Pastels.", Pan (February 5, 1881)
"Venice in Pastel", St. James's Gazette (February 9, 1881), p. 69
Thomas R. Way, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1903), p. 93
Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 397, p. 216
Thomas R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, John Lane Co. (New York, 1912), reproduced, facing p. 52
Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolors, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1966), no. 89, p. 193, reproduced pl. 89
Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 244
Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), p. 124
Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), color plate XII
Robert H. Getscher, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels (New York, 1991), pp. 122 - 123, 181 - 182, no. 42
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 302 - 303, no. 806, reproduced in color
Alastair Grieve, Whistler's Venice, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2000), fig. 213 (color), p. 165
Margaret F. MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, exh. cat., Lund Humphries (Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, 2001), fig. 47 (color), p. 45
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 474-75, cat. 217, ill.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 490-91, cat. 217, ill.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 416-419, cat. no. 445, reproduced in color, p. 417
- Exhibition History
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Venice Pastels, The Fine Art Society, London, 01/29/1881 - 04/01/1881
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
- Subjects and Contexts
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Collection Highlights
Google Art Project
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