Second Venice Set: Little Court
artist
James McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1880-1881
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumEtching printed on paper
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.Sar.1.1.2.13
eMuseum ID720286
EmbARK ObjectID23909
TMS Source ID8692
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. 21.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 74, no. 173.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 98.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 162, no. 232.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 105, no. 236.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 32, no. 102.
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. 233, 281, no. 236.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 120, 122.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Little Court." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 244, accessed 31 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 74, no. 173.
James McNeill Whistler. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), p. 98.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 162, no. 232.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 105, no. 236.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 32, no. 102.
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. 233, 281, no. 236.
Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Berkeley, 2001), pp. 120, 122.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Little Court." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 244, accessed 31 May 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
MarksNotesSigned in etching: Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1880-1881]
Signed (on tab, recto): Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1886]
Inscribed (on tab, recto): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
Inscribed in graphite (on tab, verso): "AWT" [collector's mark, Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau]
Inscribed in pencil (on paper, verso): "13"
Signed (on tab, recto): Whistler's butterfly signature [dated 1886]
Inscribed (on tab, recto): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
Inscribed in graphite (on tab, verso): "AWT" [collector's mark, Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau]
Inscribed in pencil (on paper, verso): "13"
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (1840-1892), print dealer and collector, from the artist by October 1886 for £0.4.4.
Purchased by the art dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York from Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau £52.10.0 in May 1888 for 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 £52.10.0 in May 1888 for 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")
