Second Venice Set: Nocturne: Furnace
artist
James McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1879-1880
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumEtching and drypoint printed on laid paper
Dimensions16.7 x 23 cm (6 9/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.Sar.1.1.2.23
eMuseum ID720732
EmbARK ObjectID23899
TMS Source ID8682
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. 44.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 76, no. 183.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 102.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 148-49, no. 210.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 95, no. 213.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 29-30, no. 97.
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. 191, 193, 232, 281, no. 214.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168-69, ill.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 116-17, no. 47.
Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999), pp. 115-16, no. 186, fig. 165.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), p. 176, fig. 228.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 71, 78, 120, 124-26, pl. 127, 128.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Nocturne: Furnace." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 208, accessed 1 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 76, no. 183.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 102.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 148-49, no. 210.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 95, no. 213.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 29-30, no. 97.
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. 191, 193, 232, 281, no. 214.
Otto Henry Bacher. "With Whistler in Venice" (New York, 1908), in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), pp. 168-69, ill.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 116-17, no. 47.
Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999), pp. 115-16, no. 186, fig. 165.
Alastair Grieve. Whistler's Venice (New Haven, 2000), p. 176, fig. 228.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 71, 78, 120, 124-26, pl. 127, 128.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Nocturne: Furnace." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 208, accessed 1 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
MarksNotesSigned in etching: Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed in pencil (on tab): Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1886]
Inscribed in pencil (on tab): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
Inscribed in pencil (on tab): Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1886]
Inscribed in pencil (on tab): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (1840-1892), print dealer and collector, from the artist by 26 February 1887 for £0.4.4.
Purchased by the art dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York from Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau for £52.10.0 in May 1888 through the print dealer Gustave Lauser (b. 1841), stock no. 14359. (as part of an album of "The Second Venice Set")
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from H. Wunderlich & Co., New York on 11 April 1890 for $750. (as part of "Whistler's two sets of Venice etchings")
Purchased by the art dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York from Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau for £52.10.0 in May 1888 through the print dealer Gustave Lauser (b. 1841), stock no. 14359. (as part of an album of "The Second Venice Set")
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from H. Wunderlich & Co., New York on 11 April 1890 for $750. (as part of "Whistler's two sets of Venice etchings")
