1916.687: Palazzo Bernardo, Venice, Italy; verso: Sketch of the Palazzo Bernardo

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1916.687

People

Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)

Title

Palazzo Bernardo, Venice, Italy; verso: Sketch of the Palazzo Bernardo

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306033

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

77.5 x 56.2 cm (30 1/2 x 22 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor, l.r.: JOSEPH LINDEN SMITH / 1889
• inscription: l.r., watercolor, in artist's hand: PALAZZO BERNADO [sic], / VENICE
• label: backing board, black ink: Museum of Fine Arts / Fogg Museum / TL 2314
• watermark: J. WHATMAN 1888

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross

Accession Year

1916

Object Number

1916.687

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Elizabeth Anne McCauley and Alan Chong, Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2004), p. 275, fig. 209 (color)

Exhibition History

• Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/11/1931 - 03/11/1931
• Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 04/21/2004 - 08/15/2004

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