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Samuel Prout 1783-1852
招標截止
描述
- Samuel Prout
- Ponte di Rialto, Venice
- watercolour over pencil heightened with scratching out
來源
Probably Lady de Grey, purchased at the Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1827, no. 26;
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 17th November 1983, lot 178, bt by the present owner
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 17th November 1983, lot 178, bt by the present owner
展覽
Probably, London, Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1827, no. 26 as 'Ponti di Rialto, Venice' (Premium Picture);
London, Tate Britain and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Turner and Venice, 9 October 2003 - 11th January 2004, and 15 February 2004-30 May 2004, no. 24.
London, Tate Britain and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Turner and Venice, 9 October 2003 - 11th January 2004, and 15 February 2004-30 May 2004, no. 24.
出版
Ian Warrell, Turner and Venice, 2003, no. 24, ill. pl. 103 & pl. 263
拍品資料及來源
Prout exhibited watercolours of the Ponti di Rialto, Venice, from either side or alongside the bridge at least seven times between 1825 and 1850. Based upon a pencil sketch in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the present work with the considerable activity of well over fifty Venetian traders and boatmen, and one of his largest watercolours, is most likely to be one of the expensive exhibits of 1827. Indeed, Ian Warrell (see, Warrell, op cit, p. 263) describes it as 'the strongest contender' for the Premium Picture of the 1827 exhibition, it was then purchased then by the Countess de Grey for 60 gns.
Prout had first visited Italy in 1824 it was recorded in the Somerset House Gazette on 25th September that Prout 'is now at Venice.' During the 1820's and 1830's the growing appetite among the British public for visualising famous views abroad, for so many recent years made impossible by warfare, was met by publications like The Landscape Annual, Prout's Sketches from Geneva to Rome, including Venice, and Sketches made in France, Switzerland and Italy. It was Prout who, due to his 1824 Italian tour and the ensuing lithographs, engravings and exhibited pictures, provided the most widespread coverage of Italian views in the 1820's.
A smaller version of this watercolour with less activity on the Grand Canal was sold in these Rooms, 22nd March 1979. Another view of the Doge's Palace measuring 16 by 23 inches was sold in these Rooms for £28,000 on 29th November 2000.
Prout had first visited Italy in 1824 it was recorded in the Somerset House Gazette on 25th September that Prout 'is now at Venice.' During the 1820's and 1830's the growing appetite among the British public for visualising famous views abroad, for so many recent years made impossible by warfare, was met by publications like The Landscape Annual, Prout's Sketches from Geneva to Rome, including Venice, and Sketches made in France, Switzerland and Italy. It was Prout who, due to his 1824 Italian tour and the ensuing lithographs, engravings and exhibited pictures, provided the most widespread coverage of Italian views in the 1820's.
A smaller version of this watercolour with less activity on the Grand Canal was sold in these Rooms, 22nd March 1979. Another view of the Doge's Palace measuring 16 by 23 inches was sold in these Rooms for £28,000 on 29th November 2000.