The Fête of the Marriage of the Adriatic, Venice

Details

Charles Vacher, N.W.S. (1818-1883)
The Fête of the Marriage of the Adriatic, Venice
signed and dated 'C. Vacher 1848.' (lower left) and further inscribed 'C. VACHER. 4. BOLTONS/West Brompton, LONDON' (on the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
40½ x 50¾ in. (102.9 x 128.9 cm.)
in the original frame

Provenance

H.R. Hammons, 67 Queen's Park Parade, Northampton; Christie's, London, 2 August 1956, lot 177 (sold 35 gns to Thomas Saunders).

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Lot Essay

This picture may be one of three Venetian scenes exhibited by Vacher at the New Watercolour Society in 1848: nos. 100, 227 and 271. The subject is the annual festival at which the Doge of Venice was escorted out into the lagoon with a regatta of boats, and threw a ring into the waters, signifying his symbolic marriage with the Adriatic.

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