Gondola Moorings on the Grand Canal
1904/1907
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over graphite on thick wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.6 × 45.5 cm (16 × 17 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1970.17.171
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Catalogue Raisonné
Ormand/Kilmurray 1127
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased in 1909 from the artists by the Brooklyn Museum; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1926); Wadsworth R. Lewis, New York, 1926; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1930); acquired by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest to National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2005
Moving Pictures: The Un-Easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film, 1890-1910, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 2005.
Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 2005 - 2007, unnumbered catalogue.
2006
The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006, repro. p. 27.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 140.
Bibliography
1997
Adelson, Warren, et. al. Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes. New York, London, Paris, 1997: 33, 3
5, no. 21.
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: 180-181, 245, no. 1127.
Little, Carl. The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent. Berkeley, 1998: repro. 43.
2005
Mathews, Nancy Mowll., et al. Moving Pictures; American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910. Exh. cat. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University; The Phillips Collection, Washington; 2005-2007. Manchester, 2005: 63, fig. 79.
Watermarks
J. Whatman 1897
Wikidata ID
Q64583990