Piazza San Marco

1898

Maurice Prendergast

Artist, American, 1858 - 1924

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite with scratching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Eugénie Prendergast

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.9 × 49.4 cm (14 1/8 × 19 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.63.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clark et al. 1990, no. 676

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

from the artist in 1924 to his brother Charles Prendergast, Boston and New York (1863-1948); by inheritance in 1948 to his wife Eugenie Prendergast, New York and Westport (CT); gift to NGA, 1984

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., October 1986.

1997

  • "Venice: From a State to a Myth", Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1997, no. 123.

2006

  • The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006, repro., p. 26.

2014

  • La Poesia Della Luce: Disegni Veneziani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington [The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington], Venezia, Museo Correr, 6 Dec. 2014-15 March 2015, no. 137

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 137.

Bibliography

1960

  • Maurice Prendergast: 1859-1924. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960: 29, 84, no. 66.

1990

  • Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 373-374, no. 676.

1997

  • Venice: From a State to a Myth. Exh. cat. San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1997: 292, 395-396, no. 123.

2014

  • La Poesia Della Luce: Disegni Veneziani dalla National Gallery of Art di Washington [The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington]. Exh. cat., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2014: 366-367, no. 137.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink over signature (in graphite?): Prendergast; lower left in brown ink: 1898; upper left verso in black crayon: St Marks / 150-; upper center verso boxed: 8; upper right verso in graphite, circled: D; lRv//in black crayon: 1898 / Venice 192

Wikidata ID

Q64608878

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