First Venice Set: The Doorway
artist
James McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1879-1880
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumEtching and drypoint printed on laid paper
Dimensions29.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.Sar.1.1.1.5
eMuseum ID720927
EmbARK ObjectID23866
TMS Source ID8674
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesThe Fine Art Society. Mr. Whistler's Etchings (London, 1883), no. 13.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), pp. 67-68, no. 154.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 96.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 119-20, no. 185.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 72-73, no. 188.
Katharine A. Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984; Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985), pp. 182, 214, 266, no. 205.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 24-25, no. 81.
David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1984), p. 262, fig. 251.1.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 314-15, no. 836r.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 104-105, nos. 40, 41.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), pp. 92, 94, 97, 189, fig. 104.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 64, 70, 76-77, 84, 88, 94-95, 101, 115, 129-32, pl. 90, 133.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 19-20, 54-55, no. 12.
Meg Hausberg. "Whistler Etchings: New Observations." Print Quarterly (Mar. 2007), pp. 15-19, 21, figs. 11-13.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Doorway." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 193, accessed 12 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), pp. 67-68, no. 154.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 96.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 119-20, no. 185.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 72-73, no. 188.
Katharine A. Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984; Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985), pp. 182, 214, 266, no. 205.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 24-25, no. 81.
David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1984), p. 262, fig. 251.1.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 314-15, no. 836r.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 104-105, nos. 40, 41.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), pp. 92, 94, 97, 189, fig. 104.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 64, 70, 76-77, 84, 88, 94-95, 101, 115, 129-32, pl. 90, 133.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 19-20, 54-55, no. 12.
Meg Hausberg. "Whistler Etchings: New Observations." Print Quarterly (Mar. 2007), pp. 15-19, 21, figs. 11-13.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Doorway." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 193, accessed 12 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
MarksNotesSigned in pencil (on tab): Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1886]
Inscribed (on tab): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
Inscribed (on tab): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
ProvenanceNotesPossibly in the collection of the surgeon and etcher Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York on 11 April 1890 for $750. (as part of "Whistler's two sets of Venice etchings")
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York on 11 April 1890 for $750. (as part of "Whistler's two sets of Venice etchings")
