Watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-singer-sargent-475" aria-label="More by John Singer Sargent" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Singer Sargent</a>
Piazzetta Venice
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
adults
arcade
architecture
boat, gondola
canal
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
column
countries and continents
crowd
dock
features
figure
groups
industrial
Italy
monuments
people
places
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice, Piazetta
waterfront
paper unique watercolour
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
1 June 2017 – 31 October 2017
2017-10-31
1 June 2017 – 31 October 2017
2017-10-31
2017-06-01
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2017-06-01
Sargent's Watercolours: A New Look
Loan-out
The Piazzetta, Venice
support: 343 × 537 mm
frame: 529 × 710 × 20 mm
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
<p><b>N03408</b> THE PIAZZETTA, VENICE <i>c</i>. 1904</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 13 1/2×21 1/8 (34·5×53·5).
<br/>Presented by Lord Duveen 1919.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> As for <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-fountain-with-girl-sketching-n03405" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03405</span></a>.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> W.T. Whitley, <i>The Art Collections of the Nation (Studio Special Number</i>), 1920, p.107.</p>
<p>A close-up view, seen from a gondola, of the mooring place in front of the Old Library, with a glimpse of the column of St Mark in the Mid-distance, but in other respects 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/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> is not strictly topographical. The artist showed two watercolours of the Piazzetta at the loan exhibition held by Carfax &amp; Co., April 1905: No.31 lent by the artist, and No.37 lent by p. Wilson Steer. Charteris (1927, p.287) lists an oil ‘Piazzetta, Venice’, 21 1/2×27 in., under the year 1905.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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adults arcade architecture boat, gondola canal cities, towns, villages (non-UK) column countries and continents crowd dock features figure groups industrial Italy monuments people places society townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice, Piazetta waterfront