A Bridge and Campanile, Venice

1902/1904

John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over black chalk on thick wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.5 × 35.2 cm (19 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1970.17.169

  • 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


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