The Flags, Saint Mark's, Venice - Fête Day

c. 1903

Eugène Vail

Artist, American, 1857 - 1934

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Mauran Vail

  • Dimensions

    overall: 82 x 92.6 cm (32 5/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
    framed: 100 x 111.1 cm (39 3/8 x 43 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.1.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1857-1934]; his wife, Gertrude Mauran Vail, until 1948; on deposit with the National Collection of Fine Arts (now National Museum of American Art), Washington, D.C., 1948-1973; gift 1973 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1937

  • Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Vail, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, November 1937, no. 17, as St. Marks [sic] - Venice.

  • Exposition Eugene Vail, 1857-1934, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, June 1937, no. 24, as St. Marc - Jour de Fête.

1938

  • Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Lawrence Vail, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1938.

1939

  • Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Vail, American Fine Arts Society Galleries, New York, January-February 1939, no. 19, as St. Marks [sic] - Fete [sic] Day - Study.

  • Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Vail, Providence Art Club, Rhode Island, March 1939, no. 46, as San Marco.

1940

  • Eugene Vail, 1857-1934, Exhibition of Paintings, L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, Maine, 1940-1941, no. 9, as San Marco, Fete [sic] Day.

  • Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Vail, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 1940, no. 11, as San Marco - Fete [sic] Day.

  • Possibly Paintings by the late Eugene Vail, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, November 1940, no cat.

  • Eugene Vail, 1857-1934, Exhibition of Paintings, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Center, March 1940, no. 21, as San Marco, Fête Day.

1941

  • Eugene Vail, 1857-1934, Exhibition of Paintings, The Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island, 1941, no. 44, as San Marco - Fête Day.

1953

  • Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1953-1963.

1974

  • Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 1974-1982.

1984

  • Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 1984-1993.

2018

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Lewis Eisenberg, U.S. Embassy residence, Rome, 2018-2020.

Bibliography

1937

  • Providence Sunday Journal, 31 October 1937: not paginated.

  • Cann, Louise Gebhard. Untitled essay. In Exposition Eugene Vail. Exh. cat. Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 1937: 17.

1939

  • Cortissoz, Royal. Exhibition review. New York Tribune, 29 January 1939: 8.

1940

  • Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald, Maine, 8 December 1940: not paginated.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 252, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 371, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 207-209, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Eugene Vail

Wikidata ID

Q20190849

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