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 | Venetian Interior Pavement 1898? Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
This
painting signed, John Singer Sargent in the lower right (which you can't see
here) was recently offered for sale
at EBay. Accompanying the photos (and there were others) was documentation of a
scientific test which dated the painting before Sargent's death.
Q. What an
interesting mystery, would you please comment on this painting.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Onion Seller 1882 |
The
painting is very much in the vernacular of Velázquez.
Notes:
Special
thanks go to Cristina,
<xinabonita@mixmail.com> for telling me about four
paintings held at the Thyssen-Bornemiseza museum.
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 | Venetian Passageway c. 1905 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venetian Street 1880-1882 |
Below is a
study John did for the finsihed above painting:
Street Scene in Venice
1882
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Sargent's
Women, Adelson Galleries, New York,
2003
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 | Venetian Water Carriers c. 1880, 1882 Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA |
From: Worcester Art Museum
Although
seemingly informal, if not spontaneous, in both design and execution, Venetian
Water Carriers is actually carefully conceived. Within a composition centered
around rectangular forms (the door and its frame, the well and its base),
Sargent subtly balanced the figure of the woman straining to carry a pail... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Wineshop 1898 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venice 1880-82 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venice (1) 1902+? Private Collection Unknown, USA |
The view is
looking north down the Piazzetta with the corner of the Libreria on the left
and the dome of the Basilica San Marco
in the distance. The column in the middle would be St Theodor on his
crocodile.
In July,
1902, the campanile (the tower that had always been behind the Libreria)
collapsed changing the visual landscape of... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venice (2) c. 1903 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venice - La Salute 1906-1911 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
See also:
Santa Maria della
Salute
1904
Notes
Exhibitions
Gondola
Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004
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- John Singer Sargent
