Approach to Venice

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Approach to Venice
Approach to Venice A11470.jpg
Artist J. M. W. Turner
Year1844
Type Oil on canvas, landscape
Dimensions62 cm× 94 cm(24 in× 37 in)
Location National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Approach to Venice is an 1844 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] [2] Produced late in the artist's career, it depicts a view of Venice from the North, across the Lagoon. [3] Turner produced many views of Venice during the 1830s and 1840s, depicting it in Romantic pre-Impressionist style.

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The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square with a couplet from Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage . It was described by John Ruskin as "the most perfectly beautiful piece of colour of all I have seen produced by human hands, by any means, or at any period". [4] Today the work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1937. [5]

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References

  1. Costello p.160
  2. Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet. Fondation Beyeler, 2008. p.65
  3. Turner and Italy p.101
  4. Turner and Italy p.101
  5. "Approach to Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner".

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