The Canal Grande (Grand Canal) is the main channel that snakes through the bulk of the islands of Venice. It is along the Grande that the stately Plazzi (palaces) are found.

This watercolor (Grand Canal Venice) was a gift to Sargent's friend Leon Delafosse whom he had painted in 1899.

Notes:

Bibliography:

John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated

Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915 (Chicago IL and London, 1989), pp. 65-66, fig. 75

Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. pp. 34-35 (color)

Edward Katz, ed., The Asheville Reader (Asheville, NC, 1999), repr. on cover (color)

1) Translation of inscription

Signature, l.r., in brown ink: "To Leon Delafosse in all admiration and amitie[?], John S. Sargent"

The label on the back of frame: "This Watercolor is the property of Mr. Leon Delafosse, G. Barthole the 15 May, 1932. G.b."