Under
the Rialto Bridge
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter
1909
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
Transparent
and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
27.6 x 48.3 cm (10 7/8 x 19 in.)
The Hayden Collection–Charles Henry Hayden
Fund 12.203
Jpg: MFA
/ Carol
Gerten's Fine Art
(See alternate and interactive zoom
at the MFA)
Sargent's painting,
of course, is
under the bridge, and his interest, besides the nice composition, is
the
play of light on the water and how the shadow of the bridge effects
that.
He revisits this
subject a number
of times.
Photo's
and history of Rialto Bridge
Notes:
Provenance:
Purchased from
the artist through M. Knoedler, New York, April 4, 1912
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