Greek Sailors on a Venetian Canal
c. 1851
Artist, German, 1807 - 1878

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on blue-gray wove paper, faded to tan
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.3 × 30.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2013.95.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Munich; (sale, Historia Auktionshaus, Berlin, 6 June 2009, lot 1239, unsold); (Martin Moeller, Hamburg, 2012); purchased 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
Arbeiten auf Papier 2013, Dr. Moeller & Cie, Hamburg, 2013, no. 37.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 127.
Inscriptions
signed twice, monogram in pen and black ink on stern of boat; signature in graphite bottom left
Wikidata ID
Q64570858