San Biagio

San Biagio

Item Information

Title:
San Biagio
Description:
On a low bank sloping to the water's edge stands a massive building, through which a high rounded archway leads to a street lined with large houses. In the outer wall are windows on either side of the archway, three with opened shutters, and at the right is a doorway opening on a balcony. A long boat lies in the water, and stranded near the archway is a large loaded boat. About the boat is a group of boys. There is a woman in the balcony, and a man is standing by a windlass at the left of the archway; there are two people on the bank at the right, and groups of people in front of the houses. Garments are hung from various parts of the building and cloths are spread on the bank. The butterfly, shaded, is halfway up the plate, at the left edge.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1879–1880] (created)
[1886] (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Marine prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Bodies of water
Passageways
Boats
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 22 x 30 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 197
Handwritten on item: One of twenty-six etchings, second Venetian set
Notes (ownership):
From the H. Whittemore Collection.
Notes (date):
Dates supplied by cataloger based on artist's dates of work in Venice and publication of the material.
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Ninth state of nine.
The work in the arch is closer and has probably been rubbed down with charcoal. All the white spaces on the wall immediately in front of the men in the boat have been shaded, including the shutter, which is covered with fine horizontal lines (Miss F. Moore).
Identifier:
17_14_000157
W. 311 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185898