Venice, 1894

Provenance

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2000
Private collection, Virginia, acquired from above, 2001
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, October 18, 2024, lot 39, from above

Related Works

Venice, 1888, oil on canvas, 25 x 35 inches, signed and dated lower right; Albany Institute of History & Art, New York

Note

Walter Launt Palmer visited Venice for the first time in 1881. For nearly two months he sketched extensively and spent time with fellow American artists John Henry Twachtman, William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, and Robert Frederick Blum. Regarding works exhibited at the Society of Landscape Painters in 1900, one critic hailed Palmer’s Venetian paintings, writing, “He has achieved the wonder of unconventionalizing conventionality, and restoring to our dreams the mystery and beauty and nobility of the Venice of romance.”