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Feb 2, 2009

The Riva, Venice

1879–80

James McNeill Whistler

(American, 1834–1903)

America, 19th century

Charcoal

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sayles Francis 1949.519

Catalogue raisonné: MacDonald 734

Location

not on view

Provenance

1880-1892

possibly Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [c. 1829-1891]

1892

(possibly his sale, Sotheby's, London, March 3, 1892, no. 247, sold to Frederick Keppel)

1911

(possibly sale, Christie's, London, February 7, 1911, no. 174, sold to Parsons)

1919

(possibly sale, Sotheby's, London, November 3, 1919, no. 78A, sold to Max Williams)

1919-1920

(Max Williams, New York, NY)

1920

(sale, Associated American Artists, New York, NY, February 19, 1920, no. 153)

1921

possibly Mitchell Kennerly [1878-1950], New York, NY

1921-1925

(possibly V.G. Fischer, Washington, DC)

after 1925-1949

Henry Sayles Francis [1902-1994], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1949-

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

What Was the Armory Show?. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27-September 15, 1963).

Whistler: Theme and Variation. Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA (January 16-February 26, 1978); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (March 11-April 16, 1978); Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA, Stanford, CA (organizer) (May 2-June 18, 1978).

Whistler: The Later Years. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (August 27-October 8, 1978).

America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 9-October 16, 1988).

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