Quiet Canal from "The Second Venice Set"
Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Date: 1879-1880
Dimensions:
9 × 6 1/8 in. (22.9 × 15.6 cm)
Medium: etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Barbara Reed
Object number: 2022.8
DescriptionThis scene is of the Fondamenta Sanudo with a corner of the Palazzo Soranzo-Venier-Sanudo-van Axel-Barozzi visible on the right. While the Palazzo was a favorite of artists, most notably Ruskin, Whistler took a different approach and focused on the canal. Five gondolas are moored along the landing and a pair of figures—a man and a woman— look into one of the boats on the right. A tree towers over the right side of the scene. One the left is a distinctively patterned three-story brick building with a gondola tied to iconic striped poles.
Not on view