Greek Sailors on a Venetian Canal

c. 1851

Friedrich Nerly

Associated Names
Friedrich Nerly

Artist, German, 1807 - 1878

The image shows six people on a small wooden boat. They are facing away from the viewer, standing close together and holding various objects. They are wearing loose-fitting garments with headwear like hats and caps. One person is wearing a red fez. The boat has crossed oars and a large flag at the back. The background is simple.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on blue-gray wove paper, faded to tan

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.3 × 30.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.95.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Munich; (sale, Historia Auktionshaus, Berlin, 6 June 2009, lot 1239, unsold); (Martin Moeller, Hamburg, 2012); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Arbeiten auf Papier 2013, Dr. Moeller & Cie, Hamburg, 2013, no. 37.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 127.

Inscriptions

signed twice, monogram in pen and black ink on stern of boat; signature in graphite bottom left

Wikidata ID

Q64570858

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