Greek Sailors on a Venetian Canal, c. 1851

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2013.95.1

Artists / Makers

Friedrich Nerly (artist) German, 1807 - 1878

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Moeller-Pisani, Martin, Dr.

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.