- Provenance
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To 1917
Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer (1855-1929), New York to 1917 [1]From 1917 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer in 1917 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Accession List, Collections Management office, as well as Original Whistler List, pg. 16, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer (C.L. Freer source) 1855-1929
- Label
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Nocturne: San Giorgio, like the closely related drawing Venice (see F1893.26), is a view from the Riva degli Schiavoni looking south to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore. When it was shown at the Fine Art Society in London in January 1881, a satirical review in the magazine Punch made fun on the gondolas in the foreground. Caricaturing the drawing as "Nocturne at a Hotel," Punch described it as showing "curious specimens of shoes left outside the bedroom doors to be cleaned."
Quotation from Harry Furniss, "Whistler's Wenice [sic]; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite," Punch, February 12, 1881.
- Published References
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- Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours : A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, 1995. .
- Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort, Pamela Robertson, Lee Glazer. James McNeill Whistler Retrospective. Exh. cat. Tokyo, 2014. p. 13, fig. 10.
- Margaret F. MacDonald. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice. Aldershot, Hampshire, England, 2001. p. 62, fig. 72.
- David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1984. p. 260, pl. 249.
- Collection Area(s)
- American Art
- Web Resources
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