Venice: Sunset on Harbour
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1905.330a-b
Tags
American ArtCharles Lang Freer collectionUnited Statesboatsunset
About this artwork
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.