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Object Number

1943.617

People

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

Medium

Pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

19.2 x 28.5 cm (7 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black crayon and orange pastel, l.r.: butterfly monogram
• inscription: recto, lower right, a butterfly monogram

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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"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

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

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