A Bridge and Campanile, Venice, 1902/1904

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over black chalk on thick wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 49.5 × 35.2 cm (19 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ormand/Kilmurray 1090

Accession Number

1970.17.169

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: John S. Sargent

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Juliet Trower; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 July 1921, no. 195); David Croal Thomson, London; (John Levy Galleries, New York); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), 1924; Robert Sterling Clark; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), 1927; acquired 1954 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
John Levy Galleries
Knoedler & Company, M.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Thomson, David
Trower, Juliet

Exhibition History

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

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 139.

Bibliography

1998: Ormond, Richard, and Elaine Kilmurray. John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1893-1913. The Complete Paintings, Volume VI. New Haven and London, 2009: no. 1090, repro.