First Venice Set: The Two Doorways
artist
James McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1880
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumEtching and drypoint printed on laid paper
Dimensions20.1 x 29 cm (7 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.Sar.1.1.1.2
eMuseum ID720863
EmbARK ObjectID23869
TMS Source ID8677
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. 28.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 69, no. 158.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 99.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 115, no. 180.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 76, no. 193.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 26, no. 87, pl. XXIV.
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, 191, 214, 260, 281, no. 204.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 74, ill.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168-69, ill.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 314-16, nos. 36r, 37.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 106-10, no. 42.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), pp. 91, 189, fig 101.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 84, 88, 94, 128, 130, pl. 131.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 266-67, fig. 218.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. Cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 62-63, no. 15.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Two Doorways." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 221, accessed 12 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 69, no. 158.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 99.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 115, no. 180.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 76, no. 193.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 26, no. 87, pl. XXIV.
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, 191, 214, 260, 281, no. 204.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 74, ill.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168-69, ill.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 314-16, nos. 36r, 37.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 106-10, no. 42.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), pp. 91, 189, fig 101.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 84, 88, 94, 128, 130, pl. 131.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 266-67, fig. 218.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. Cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 62-63, no. 15.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Two Doorways." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 221, accessed 12 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
MarksNotesSigned (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")
