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>
Riva Degli Schiavoni Venice
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
architecture
boat, gondola
canal
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
industrial
Italy
palace
places
prison
public and municipal
residential
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
Venice, Doge’s Palace
Venice, Riva degli Schiavoni
waterfront
paper unique watercolour
12 September 2009 – 26 September 2010
2010-09-26
10 July 2010 – 26 September 2010
2010-09-26
2010-07-10
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2009-09-12
Sargent and the Sea
Loan-out
Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice
support: 254 × 356 mm
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
<p><b>N03406</b> RIVA DEGLI SCHIAVONI, VENICE <i>c</i>. 1904</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Watercolour, 10×14 (25·5×35·5).
<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>.</p>
<p>A view of the Riva degli Schiavoni seen from a gondola near the Dogana. The Palazzo Ducale and Prigioni are sketched in on the far left.</p>
<p>Sargent seems to have begun making <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>watercolours</span></a> during his second visit to Venice in 1880 (Mount, 1957, p.60), and henceforth made many studies of the city on subsequent visits which, from the late nineties onward, became part of the artist's annual break from <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> <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>painting</span></a> (Mount, 1957, pp.252–3). The watercolours are hard to date but <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-riva-degli-schiavoni-venice-n03406" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03406</span></a> may be identical with that shown at the loan exhibition of watercolours held at Carfax &amp; Co., April 1905 (5), ‘The Riva’, lent by the artist. On the other hand, the title ‘Gondola Prows’ appears twice on the back of the mount and again on the wooden backboard, and a watercolour of this title was included in the Carfax exhibition of 1905 as No.27, also on loan from the artist.</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
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture boat, gondola canal cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents industrial Italy palace places prison public and municipal residential society townscapes / man-made features transport: water Venice, Doge’s Palace Venice, Riva degli Schiavoni waterfront