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
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Venetian Festival
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
adults
architecture
canal
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
crowd
emotions, concepts and ideas
fair
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
gestural
groups
industrial
Italy
landscape
leisure and pastimes
music and entertainment
people
places
sunshine
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
Venice - non-specific
weather
<p>This is one of a pair of paintings of Venetian festivals which were probably produced in the mid-1840s. This painting is probably not finished and was not exhibited. The shallow landscape format is typical of Turner’s late Venetian subjects.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
30 July 2001 – 30 June 2002
2002-06-30
30 July 2001 – 30 June 2002
2002-06-30
2001-07-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-07-30
Painting Venice
Collection based display
20 March 2009 – 27 July 2009
2009-07-27
20 March 2009
2009-03-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-03-20
Turner's Later Oil Sketches and Unfinished Works
Collection based display
5 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
5 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
2009-08-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-05
Turner Abroad
Collection based display
11 October 2014 – 11 January 2015
2015-01-11
11 October 2014 – 11 January 2015
2015-01-11
2014-10-11
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2014-10-11
Jeremy Deller, English Magic
Loan-out
26 January 2019 – 15 September 2019
2019-09-15
26 January 2019 – 22 April 2019
2019-04-22
2019-01-26
Two Temple Place (London, UK)
29 May 2019 – 15 September 2019
2019-09-15
2019-05-29
Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, UK)
http://www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk
2019-01-26
John Ruskin: Seeing Beauty, Inspiring Minds
Loan-out
16 October 2021 – 14 July 2023
2023-07-14
16 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
2022-03-06
2021-10-16
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Aarhus, Denmark)
18 May 2022 – 11 September 2022
2022-09-11
2022-05-18
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www.mnac.es
8 October 2022 – 5 February 2023
2023-02-05
2022-10-08
National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland)
http://www.nationalgallery.ie
3 March 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-03-03
Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Martigny, Switzerland)
2021-10-16
Turner Watercolours: Sun is God
Tate partnerships & programmes
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)
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
Venetian Festival
support: 724 × 1133 mm
frame: 1000 × 1410 × 75 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 pair of paintings of Venetian festivals which were probably produced in the mid-1840s.  This painting is probably not finished and was not exhibited.  The shallow landscape format is typical of Turner’s late Venetian subjects.
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Display caption
2010-02-18T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>508. </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-venetian-festival-n04659" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04659</span></a>]<b> Venetian Festival</b> <i>c.</i> 1845</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (4659)</p>
<p>Canvas, 28 1/2 × 44 5/8 (72·5 × 113·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 138 or 139, 2 each 3'9" × 2'4 1/2"), transferred to the Tate Gallery 1938.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Australian tour 1960 (16); Tokyo and Kyoto 1970–71 (46, repr.); Dresden (21) and Berlin (31, colour pl. 22) 1972; Lisbon 1973 (21, repr. in colour).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, p. 64; Butlin 1981, p. 45.</p>
<p>Companion to No. 507 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-riva-degli-schiavone-venice-water-fete-n04661" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04661</span></a>], <i>q.v.</i> Formerly called ‘Venice, after the Ball’.</p>
<p>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>canvas</span></a> bears the stamp of T. Brown of the type that seems to have come in in 1839.</p>
<p><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
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults architecture canal cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents crowd emotions, concepts and ideas fair figure formal qualities from recognisable sources gestural groups industrial Italy landscape leisure and pastimes music and entertainment people places sunshine townscape townscapes / man-made features Venice - non-specific weather