Gondolier

ca. 1868

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Overview

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Provenance

Title: Gondolier
Artist: Henri Regnault (French, Paris 1843–1871 Buzenval)
Date: ca. 1868
Medium: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Paul Jeromack, 2021
Object Number: 2021.369
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

More Artwork

By Henri Regnault

In the same medium

A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.

Head Study for "The Entombment of Christ", Henri Regnault French, Graphite — Head Study for "The Entombment of Christ"
Multiple artists/makers
1864

Salome, Henri Regnault French, Oil on canvas — Salome
Henri Regnault
1870

The Lake of Zug, Joseph Mallord William Turner British, Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache) with reductive techniques over graphite — The Lake of Zug
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1843

Virgil's Tomb with a View of the Bay of Naples in the Moonlight, Carl Georg Anton Graeb German, Graphite, white gouache, and pen and brown ink (?) — Virgil's Tomb with a View of the Bay of Naples in the Moonlight
Carl Georg Anton Graeb
1860–84

Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice, John Ruskin British, Watercolor over graphite — Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice
John Ruskin
1849–50

Research Resources

The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.

To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.

Feedback

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.