# Corte del Paradiso, in James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler painted this in 1880, aged 46. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A narrow Venetian courtyard, the Corte del Paradiso, is evoked with a few lines of black chalk and touches of coloured pastel on brown paper, the bare sheet standing for walls and shadow.

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## The work

- Date: 1880
- Medium: Pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions
- Dimensions: 30.1 × 14.9 cm (11 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.679
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[James McNeill Whistler](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/james-mcneill-whistler), American, 1834–1903

Whistler spent part of his boyhood in Russia, left West Point without graduating and trained as a painter in Paris before settling in London in 1859.

19 works in the collection.

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