Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute | Joseph Mallord William Turner | All | European Paintings | Collection Database | Works of Art

Gallery LabelThis painting, which is based in part on a sketch executed in August 1819 during Turner's first trip to Venice, combines two viewpoints along the Grand Canal. The buildings on the left are seen from the corner of the church of Santa Maria della Salute. Those on the right are seen from a vague position across the canal, approximately one hundred yards farther back, near the Campo del Traghetto of Santa Maria del Giglio. Turner also extended the height of the Campanile (the tower in the background at left) and added a building in the background at the right.

ProvenanceH. A. J. Munro of Novar, London (by 1847–60; sale, Christie's, London, March 26, 1860, no. 150, for £2,520 to Gambart); [Gambart, London, from 1860; sold to Heugh]; John Heugh, Manchester (until 1862; sold to Agnew); [Agnew, London, 1862; sold to Mendel]; Sam Mendel, Manley Hall, Manchester (1862–75; cat., 1867, no. 125; his sale, Christie's, London, April 24, 1875, no. 445, for £7,350 to Agnew); [Agnew, London, 1875; sold to Dudley]; William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, Dudley House, London (1875–d. 1885); William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, Dudley House (1885–1886/87; sold through Farrer to Vanderbilt); Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York (1886/87–d. 1899)

Exhibition History

London. Royal Academy. 1835, no. 155.

Royal Manchester Institution. "Works of Modern Artists," 1866, no. 637.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Paintings, Drawings and Prints by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, R. P. Bonington," March 21–April 28, 1946, no. 12.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan," November 7, 1952–September 7, 1953, no. 136.

London. Agnew. "150th Anniversary Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours by J. M. W. Turner, R.A.," November 1–December 2, 1967, no. 18.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 16–November 1, 1970, unnumbered cat.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries," November 15, 1970–February 15, 1971, no. 361.

Paris. Grand Palais. "J. M. W. Turner," October 14, 1983–January 16, 1984, no. 63.

Essen. Museum Folkwang. "William Turner: Licht und Farbe," September 15, 2001–January 6, 2002, no. 105.

Kunsthaus Zürich. "William Turner: Licht und Farbe," February 1–May 26, 2002, no. 105.

London. Tate Britain. "Turner and Venice," October 9, 2003–January 11, 2004, no. 39.

Fort Worth. Kimbell Art Museum. "Turner and Venice," February 15–May 30, 2004, no. 39.

Washington. National Gallery of Art. "J. M. W. Turner," October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008, no. 106.

Dallas Museum of Art. "J. M. W. Turner," February 10–May 18, 2008, no. 106.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "J. M. W. Turner," June 24–September 21, 2008, no. 106.

References

Examiner (May 10, 1835), p. 294 [see Ref. Butlin and Joll 1977].

Fraser's Magazine 12, no. 67 (1835), pp. 52–55 [see Ref. Butlin and Joll 1977].

Literary Gazette (May 9, 1835), p. 298 [see Ref. Butlin and Joll 1977].

"Maga". Blackwood's Magazine (August 1835) [see Ref. Monkhouse 1889, p. 124].

The Observer (May 10, 1835) [see Ref. Butlin and Joll 1977].

Spectator (May 9, 1835), p. 447 [see Ref. Butlin and Joll 1977].

"The Royal Academy." The Times (May 23, 1835), p. 5.

"Visits to Private Galleries." Art-Union 9 (July 1, 1847), p. 253.

John Ruskin. Letter to his father, John Ruskin Sr. September 11, 1851 [see Ref. Cook and Wedderburn 1903–12, vol. 10, 1904, p. xxix].

John Burnet and Peter Cunningham. Turner and His Works. London, 1852, p. 117, no. 184.

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Art-Journal (1857) [see sale cat. 1860].

John Ruskin. Catalogue of the Turner Sketches in the National Gallery, Part I. 1857 [see Ref. Cook and Wedderburn 1903–12, vol. 13, 1904, p. 213].

John Ruskin Sr. Letter to Ernest Gambart. April 26, 1860 [see Ref. Maas 1975].

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W. L. Wyllie. J. M. W. Turner. London, 1905, p. 99.

W. G. Rawlinson. The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. London, 1913, vol. 2, p. 333.

P[ercy]. M[oore]. Turner. "Pictures of the English School in New York." Burlington Magazine 22 (February 1913), p. 275, pl. IIIE.

Harry Townend. J. M. W. Turner, 1775–1851. London, 1923, pp. 76–77.

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C. H. Collins Baker. British Painting. London, 1933, p. 287.

A. J. Finberg. The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Oxford, 1939, pp. 355, 499, no. 461.

Claus Virch. "'Ye Mists and Exhalations That Now Rise'." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 20 (April 1962), pp. 253, 256, ill. p. 255.

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Jeremy Maas. Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World. London, 1975, pp. 114, 301 n. 13.

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. New Haven, 1977, vol. 1, pp. 193–94, 232, no. 362; vol. 2, pl. 342.

Collected Correspondence of J. M. W. Turner. Oxford, 1980, pp. 272, 282.

Evelyn Joll in A Dealer's Record: Agnew's, 1967–81. London, 1981, p. 148.

Evelyn Joll in J. M. W. Turner. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, pp. 130–31, no. 63, ill.

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. rev. ed. New Haven, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 212–13, no. 362; vol. 2, pl. 367 (color).

John Pope-Hennessy. "Roger Fry and The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on his Eightieth Birthday. London, 1984, p. 231.

Lindsay Stainton. Turner's Venice. New York, 1985, p. 32.

Eric Shanes. Turner. London, 1990, pp. 106–7, ill. (color).

Robert Hewison, with Ian Warrell, and Stephen Wildman. Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Exh. cat., Tate Britain. London, 2000, p. 54.

Luke Herrmann in The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner. Oxford, 2001, p. 361.

Evelyn Joll in Oxford University Press. The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner. Oxford, 2001, p. 187.

Charles Sebag-Montefiore in The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner. Oxford, 2001, p. 194.

Ian Warrell. Turner and Venice. Exh. cat., Tate Britain. London, 2003, pp. 107, 113, 168, 270, no. 39, fig. 109 (color).

Andrea Fredericksen in J. M. W. Turner. Exh. cat., Washington National Gallery of Art. London, 2007, pp. 151, 258, no. 106, ill. (color).

Gary Tinterow in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 22, 309, no. 20, ill. (color and bw).

Ian Warrell in J. M. W. Turner. Exh. cat., Washington National Gallery of Art. London, 2007, p. 129.

Ian Warrell in Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet. Exh. cat., Fondation Beyeler. Basel, 2008, p. 61.

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