Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice

John Singer Sargentabout 1909

Details

Title: Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice
Creator Lifespan: 1856 - 1925
Creator Nationality: American
Creator Gender: Male
Date Created: about 1909
Type: watercolors
Rights: Mary B. Milliken Fund
External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/30477
Medium: watercolor over pencil on off-white paper
wall label: Sargent, born to American parents in Italy, resided most of his life in England. Elected Royal Academician as a portrait painter, Sargent also excelled in watercolors, of which he practiced exclusively on his annual vacations in Venice from 1886. "Sargent drew and painted, the accidental things that caught his eye, the queer and irregular shapes of dark gondolas on the canals . . . the flash of light on the facades of palaces and the reflections on the glittering water." -Martin Hardie, 1930 Sargent gave this watercolor to his friend Mrs. Charles Hunter, the wife of an English coal magnate, and did so frequently "until it seems her house is almost overflowing."
measurements: 14 5/8 x 20 1/2 in
Artist: John Singer Sargent

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