Corte del Paradiso

London, The Fine Art Society, "Venice Pastels" 1881, cat. 52, as "Courtyard."

Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 26, 2015), Checklist para. 5, cat. 4.1 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 5, cat. 4.1 (ill.).

Thea Burns and Philippe Saunier, The Art of the Pastel (New York and London, 2014), p. 276 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 9, 20, 146-148, 159, 168, 226-227, cat. 62 (ill.), cat. by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin.

The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Judith A. Barter (Chicago, 2011), pp. 42-45 (ill., pl. 14).

Martha Tedeschi, “Corte del Paradiso,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30:1 (2004), pp. 80-81 (ill.).

David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces (Richmond, VA, 2004), pp. 87-88 (ill.).

Margaret F. MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice (Aldershot, 2001), pp. 99-100, 153, (ill., fig. 109).

Alastair Grieve, "Corte del Paradiso, 1880," The Fine Art Society Newsletter, Spring (London, 2000), p. 22.

Alastair Grieve, Whistler’s Venice (New Haven and Londons, 2000), 149 (ill., fig. 187).

by descent to Harold Brent Wrenn (1878-1938)

by descent to John Henry Wrenn (1913-1981)

T. R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), facing p. 52 (ill.).

Cyril Flower (1843-1907), the first Lord Battersea. from 1881. John H. Wrenn (1840-1911), Chicago

London, New Gallery, "Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler," February 22-April 15, 1905, cat. 61, as "A Venetian Courtyard."

London, Marchant and Company, "Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes, by British and Foreign Artists," 1904, cat. 24.

London, Marchant and Company, "Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes, by British and Foreign Artists," 1903, cat. 173.

Richmond, Va, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection," September 20, 1997-January 25, 1998, pp. 46-47 (ill., pl. 16). cat. by David Park Curry, with Elizabeth L. O’Leary and Susan Jensen Rawles.

Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 292, no. 784 (ill.).

London, Tate Gallery, "James McNeill Whistler," October 13, 1994-January 8, 1995, p. 190 cat. 111 (ill.); traveled to Paris, Musée d'Orsay, February 6-April 30, 1995, and Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art, May 28-August 20, 1995.

Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (London, 1994), p. 190, no. 111 (ill.).

sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, December 2, 1982, lot 10, to The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to at least 1994 [MacDonald 1995]. Sold, Christie's, New York, May 26, 1999. Sold by Fine Art Society, London, to the Art Institute, 2002.