A view of St. Mark's Square, The Doge's Palace and the Campanile, Venice

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William Wyld (1806-1889)
A view of St. Mark's Square, The Doge's Palace and the Campanile, Venice
signed 'W WYLD' (lower right, on a boat)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
19 1/8 x 28 3/8 in. (48.6 x 72.1 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 June 2006, lot 69.

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Lot Essay

Wyld lived in Paris for the large majority of his life, travelling extensively throughout Europe, often accompanied by Horace Vernet (1789-1863). It was with Vernet, Director of the French Academy in Rome, that Wyld visited Italy in 1834. The present watercolour was probably worked up from a sketch made during this trip. Wyld executed other watercolours of this view in Venice and an oil painting, formerly in the collection of the Leggatt Brothers, 1956.

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