A Bridge and Campanile, Venice

1902/1904

John Singer Sargent

Associated Names
John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

This painting depicts a scene of a bridge over a canal. The perspective is close to the water, with buildings on the left side and in the background behind the pale blue bridge. The buildings include a tall tan belltower in the center of the painting. On the left, a long brown boat floats in the water by the buildings. The buildings are in shades of cream, teal, dark blue, brown, pink, and peach. The canal is mostly gray and white, but it reflects some shades of blue and peach from the buildings. The sky above is cream. The painting uses soft pastel colors and fluid, visible brushstrokes, causing some of the colors to blend together.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over black chalk on thick wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1970.17.169

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ormand/Kilmurray 1090

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: John S. Sargent

Wikidata ID

Q64583988

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