The Piazza San Marco

1874

Rudolf von Alt

Artist, Austrian, 1812 - 1905

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over black chalk on thick wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Joan and David Maxwell

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.7 × 49.5 cm (13 11/16 × 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.34.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Moritz von Kuffner [1854-1939], Vienna; by descent; (Artemis Fine Arts, Inc., New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 132.

Bibliography

2003

  • Robison, Andrew. "The Piazza San Marco." In National Gallery of Art Bulletin. Fall 2003.

Inscriptions

signed in pen an brown ink "R Alt Venedig Oct 874"; by the artist, upper center verso in graphite: Eigenthum des Herrn von Kuffner / Rudolph von Alt

Wikidata ID

Q64630017

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