A Bridge and Campanile, Venice
1902/1904
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over black chalk on thick wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 49.5 × 35.2 cm (19 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1970.17.169
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Catalogue Raisonné
Ormand/Kilmurray 1090
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Juliet Trower; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 July 1921, no. 195); David Croal Thomson, London; (John Levy Galleries, New York); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), 1924; Robert Sterling Clark; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), 1927; acquired 1954 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA.
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. 139.
Bibliography
1998
Ormond, Richard, and Elaine Kilmurray. John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1893-1913. The Complete Paintings, Volume VI. New Haven and London, 2009: no. 1090, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left in brown ink: John S. Sargent
Wikidata ID
Q64583988