Quiet Canal from "The Second Venice Set"
Quiet Canal from "The Second Venice Set"
Artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834-1903)
Date1879-1880
Dimensions9 × 6 1/8 in. (22.9 × 15.6 cm)
Mediumetching
ClassificationPrints
Credit LineBequest of Barbara Reed
Object number
2022.8
Not on View
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.
Published ReferencesKennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, cat. no. 205.
Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, cat. no. 202.
Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886, cat. no. 172.
4th-5th century CE
Mid- to late 4th century CE
1st-2nd century CE
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