The Doorway from "The First Venice Set"
The Doorway from "The First Venice Set"
Artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834-1903)
Date1879-1880
Dimensions11 1/2 × 7 7/8 in. (29.2 × 20 cm)
Mediumetching, drypoint, and roulette
ClassificationPrints
Credit LineBequest of Barbara Reed
Object number
2022.6
Not on View
DescriptionThe view shows the doorway of the Palazzo Gussoni, a small venetian palace along the Grand Canal. The focus of the etching is on the doorway’s Renaissance façade with decorative bands, rosette stone carvings, and ornately patterned ironwork. At the edge of the door, a woman bends down towards the canal. Behind her is another figure in the shadows. Chairs hang from the ceiling and a pile of lumber resides to the left, all evidence that the site is a chair repair shop.
Published ReferencesWedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886, cat. no. 154.
Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, cat. no. 185.
Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, cat. no. 188.
George Platt Lynes
mid 20th Century
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