A Venetian Lagoon

1871/1874

William Stanley Haseltine

Artist, American, 1835 - 1900

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite, with white heightening, on blue-gray wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.5 × 55.9 cm (14 3/8 × 22 in.)

  • Accession

    1968.12.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Elisabeth Adams, Concord, MA; Helen Haseltine Plowden, Aspley Guise; purchased by NGA, 1968.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 134.

Bibliography

1947

  • Plowden, Helen Haseltine. William Stanley Haseltine: Sea and Landscape Painter (1835-1900. Frederick Muller, London, 1947: facing 115.

1992

  • Simpson, Marc, et al. Expressions of Place: The Art of Wiliam Stanley Haseltine. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992: p. 126.

2017

  • American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017: 100, no. 77.

Inscriptions

lower right in red crayon: WmS.H

Wikidata ID

Q64639639

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