Gondolier

Henri Regnault French

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After winning the Prix de Rome, Regnault went to Italy in 1867. He seems to have passed through Venice very briefly in 1868, where he may have observed such a gondolier at work. He was disappointed with the city, finding it "insufficiently luminous," and with Italy in general. His work flourished instead in Spain during his travels in 1868−69. Stylistically, this work relates closely to the watercolors of Spanish types he produced at that time.

Gondolier, Henri Regnault (French, Paris 1843–1871 Buzenval), Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite

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