Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Artist:Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
Date:ca. 1835
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 x 48 1/8 in. (91.4 x 122.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1899

Turner drew on his considerable experience as a marine painter and the brilliance of his technique as a watercolorist to create this view, in which the foundations of the palaces of Venice merge into the waters of the lagoon by means of delicate reflections. He based the composition on a rather slight pencil drawing made during his first trip to Venice, in 1819, but the painting is really the outcome of his second visit, in 1833. He exhibited this canvas to wide acclaim at the Royal Academy, London, in 1835.

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