Venice: Sunset on Harbour
National Museum of Asian Art

Venice: Sunset on Harbour

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1880

Pastel on gray paper
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Most of the Venice pastels are on brown paper. Only six, including this one, are on gray paper. It was drawn from a spot near the public gardens, not far from the Casa Jankovitz, the hotel where Whistler lived during the summer and fall of 1880. Like the other five Venice pastels on gray paper, Venice: Sunset on Harbour was probably drawn near the end of Whistler's stay in Venice.

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