Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Venice

细节

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Venice
inscribed as title and further inscribed 'Nov.16. 1/2 an hour before sunrise./1865' (lower left) and numbered '25' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
3½ x 11 in. (9 x 28 cm.)

来源

Davis and Langdale Company, Inc., New York.

拍品专文

Lear first visited Venice in 1857. He returned in November 1865 to make studies for an oil painting which had been commissioned by Lady Waldegrave. On the day this watercolour was painted he wrote in his Diary 'The same bright gorgeous - but cold weather. Anything so indescribably beautiful as the colour of this place I never saw.'