The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
1843
Artist, British, 1775 - 1851

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Given in memory of Governor Alvan T. Fuller by The Fuller Foundation, Inc.
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Dimensions
overall: 62 x 93 cm (24 7/16 x 36 5/8 in.)
framed: 86 x 116.5 cm (33 7/8 x 45 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1961.2.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 1843 from exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, by Edwin Bullock, Hawthorn House, Handsworth, Birmingham; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 21 and 23 May 1870, 1st day, no. 143); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, who sold it that same day to John Fowler (later Sir John Fowler, Bt.) [1817-1898], Thornwood Lodge, Campden Hill, London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 May 1899, no. 79); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, for James Ross, Montreal; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 8 July 1927, no. 28, repro.); bought by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, for Alvin T. Fuller, Boston [d. 1958]; The Fuller Foundation; gift 1961 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1843
Modern Works of Art, Birmingham Society of Artists, Athenaeum, Temple Row, Birmingham, 1843, no. 54.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1843, no. 144.
1899
Twenty Masterpieces of the English School, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1899, no. 19.
Loan Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1899, no. 7.
1904
Society of American Collectors Comparative Exhibition of Native and Foreign Art, American Fine Arts Society Galleries, 1904, no. 165, as Venice, the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute.
1928
Exhibition of Paintings Loaned by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, Art Club, Boston, 1928, no. 46.
1939
Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939, no. 133, pl. 65.
1946
Paintings Drawings and Prints by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, R.P. Bonington, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, no. 17.
1959
A Memorial Exhibition of the Collection of the Honorable Alvan T. Fuller, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959, no. 33, repro.
1974
Turner 1775-1851, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1974-1975, no. 533, color repro.
1986
Turner, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Municipal Museum, Kyoto, 1986, no. 50, color repro.
1989
Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors 1880-1920, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1989-1990, 156-160, no. 57.
1993
The Art of Seeing: John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye, Phoenix Art Museum; Indianapolis Art Museum, 1993, fig. 22.
1997
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, 1997, no. 93, repro.
2002
Loan for display with permanent collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2002-2003.
2003
Turner: The Late Seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Manchester Art Gallery; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 2003-2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 82, repro. (shown only in Manchester and Glasgow).
2008
Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2008-2009, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2010
La Serenissima : Eighteenth-Ventury Venetian Art from North American Collections, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010-2011, no. 50, repro.
2018
John Ruskin: Le Pietre di Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2018, no. 22.
Bibliography
1843
Athenaeum 816 (17 June 1843): 570.
Spectator, 16, no. 776, 13 May 1843: 451.
The Times (London), 9 May 1843.
1930
Finberg, Alexander Joseph. In Venice with Turner. London, 1930: 148.
1962
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Treasures from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1962: 142, color repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 133.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:374, color repro.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 120, repro.
Cooke, Hereward Lester. Painting Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 232, details and color repro. opp.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 356, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 601, color repro.
1980
Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner. Edited by John Gage. Oxford, 1980: no. 261.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 413, no. 586, color repro.
Butlin, Martin, and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977 (2d rev. ed., 1984): 1:no. 403; 2:color pl. 409.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 406, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 283-285, repro. 285.
2007
Warrell, Ian, ed. J.M.W. Turner. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. London and Washington, D.C., 2007: 243.
Inscriptions
lower right: JMWT
Wikidata ID
Q20187050