Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (1783-1852)
Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (1783-1852)

The entrance to the Palazzo Ducale from the Piazzetta San Marco, Venice, Italy

细节
Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (1783-1852)
The entrance to the Palazzo Ducale from the Piazzetta San Marco, Venice, Italy
watercolour, heightened with bodycolour
14 x 10¼ in. (35.5 x 26 cm.)
来源
with Davis & Langdale, New York.

拍品专文

Prout visited Venice in 1824 and the watercolours he exhibited on his return to England were somewhat of a novelty: Turner and Bonington exhibited their Venetian views a little later. Ruskin writing on Prout's Venetian sketches commented '..you have been so scrupulous and fondly faithful: and so often rendered the character of peculiar features, of which I believe few persons...could understand the precision' (Letter of May 1849 - Works, XXXVIII, 343).
A similar watercolour, looking out onto the Piazza from the entrance to the Palazzo Ducale is in the collection of the Trustees of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.