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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, exhibited 1835
Oil on canvas; 36 x 48 1/8 in. (91.4 x 122.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1899 (99.31)
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Turner included subtle references to the city's glorious past in his scenes of modern Venice. He also deliberately evoked artistic tradition, especially Canaletto's views of Venice in the eighteenth century, which appealed to British collectors. On the whole, critics responded favorably to his Venetian pictures. When this painting was sold in 1860, an effort was made to purchase it for the Louvre, which did not acquire its first oil by Turner until 1967.
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