Oil paint on canvas
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on loan
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Venice with Salute
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
architecture
canal
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
colour
countries and continents
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
gestural
industrial
Italy
landscape
non-representational
places
religious
townscapes / man-made features
Venice, Grand Canal
Venice, Santa Maria della Salute
waterfront
<p>This is one of a few paintings of Venice which Turner may have begun in the  hope of generating commissions.  It remained unfinished.</p><p>It shows the lower end of the Grand  Canal, with the dome of the church  of Santa Maria della Salute shimmering  in the afternoon light. Of the pictures Turner painted in his last years, it was  his images of Venice that were least controversial and most popular  with collectors.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
9 October 2003 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
9 October 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
2003-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
15 February 2004 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
2004-02-15
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
2003-10-09
Turner and Venice
Exhibition
10 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-10
Impressions and Ideas Turner's Oil Sketches and Studies
Collection based display
16 November 2008 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
23 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
2009-02-22
2008-11-23
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
23 March 2009 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
2009-03-23
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
15 July 2009 – 25 October 2009
2009-10-25
2009-07-15
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary)
http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/
2008-11-16
Turner and Italy
Loan-out
8 October 2011 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
8 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2011-10-08
On the Other Side of Air:Later paintings by Turner, Monet, Twombly
Loan-out
8 October 2011 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
8 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
29 June 2012 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
2012-06-29
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2011-10-08
Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings
Exhibition
1 May 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
4 May 2016 – 18 September 2016
2016-09-18
2016-05-04
Caumont Art Centre (Aix-en-Provence, France)
7 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
2016-10-07
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2016-05-01
JMW Turner: From Shade and Darkness, to Light and Colour
Loan-out
10 March 2018 – 10 June 2018
2018-06-10
10 March 2018 – 10 June 2018
2018-06-10
2018-03-10
Palazzo Ducale (Venice, Italy)
2018-03-10
John Ruskin. The Stones of Venice
Loan-out
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
2023-10-28
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, Germany)
2023-10-28
Turner at Lenbachhaus Munich
Loan-out
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
1 June 2026 – 1 October 2026
2026-10-01
2026-06-01
External
15 November 2026 – 15 March 2027
2027-03-15
2026-11-15
External
1 May 2027 – 1 September 2027
2027-09-01
2027-05-01
External
15 October 2027 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
2027-10-15
External
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
Venice with the Salute
support: 622 × 927 mm
frame: 788 × 1090 × 70 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>
This is one of a few <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of Venice which Turner may have begun in the <br/>
hope of generating commissions. <br/>
It remained unfinished.</p>
<p>
 </p>
<p>
It shows the lower end of the Grand <br/>
Canal, with the dome of the church <br/>
of Santa Maria della Salute shimmering <br/>
in the afternoon light. Of the pictures Turner painted in his last years, it was <br/>
his images of Venice that were least controversial and most popular <br/>
with collectors. </p>
<p>
 </p>
Display caption
2004-09-08T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>502. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-with-the-salute-n05487" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05487</span></a>]<b> Venice with the Salute</b> <i>c.</i> 1840–5? </p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5487)</p>
<p>Canvas, 24 5/8 × 36 1/2 (62 × 92·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (145, one of 2 each 3'0 1/4" × 2'0 1/2"" with No. 503; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> R.A. 1974–5 (536); Leningrad and Moscow 1975–6 (68); Paris 1983–4 (68, repr.).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 159, 188; Butlin 1981, p. 45.</p>
<p>Turner exhibited no fewer than eighteen small Venetian scenes of this size at the R.A. between 1840 and 1846. Nos. 502 [<span>N05487</span>] and 503 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-scene-in-venice-n05488" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05488</span></a>], both from the Turner Bequest and only revealed by cleaning in the 1970s, are presumably lay-ins for further works for exhibition. No. 502 [<span>N05487</span>] seems to show S. Maria della Salute seen along the Grand Canal from near the present Academia bridge; another view of the Salute, from the opposite direction, was one of the 1844 exhibits (No. 411 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-maria-della-salute-n00539" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00539</span></a>]). The form of the Thomas Brown stamp on the back of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> of Nos. 502 [<span>N05487</span>] and 503 [<span>N05488</span>] confirms a dating in the 1840s (see Butlin, <i>loc. cit.</i>).</p>
<p>There are losses, now restored, about 1 in. wide down the left-hand side and about  1/4 in. along parts of the bottom edge.
<br/>
<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction architecture canal church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) colour countries and continents emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities from recognisable sources gestural industrial Italy landscape non-representational places religious townscapes / man-made features Venice, Grand Canal Venice, Santa Maria della Salute waterfront