Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011779The Riva, Venice
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).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- 1879–80
- Medium
- charcoal
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sayles Francis
- Accession no.
- 1949.519
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