The Grand Canal, Venice (Frigate and Gondola, Basin of San Marco)

c. 1852

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	21 13/16 x 31 5/8 in. (55.4 x 80.3 cm) Frame: 30 3/8 x 40 1/2 x 4 in. (77.2 x 102.9 x 10.2 cm)
Object Number	1955.902
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Félix Ziem, The Grand Canal, Venice (Frigate and Gondola, Basin of San Marco), c. 1852, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.902

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Fernandez, Rafael. A Scene of Light and Glory: Approaches to Venice. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Paris (until 1900, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 May 1900, no. 81, as Le Grand Canal, à Venise, sold to Le Roy); Le Roy (from 1900); Daniel Gray Reid, New York (d. 1925, sale, American Art Association, New York, 5–6 Jan. 1927, no. 160, as Venice);¹ [Scott & Fowles, New York, sold to Clark, 3 Feb. 1934, as The Grand Canal, Venice]; Robert Sterling Clark (1934–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. The information regarding Reid owning the picture comes from the Scott & Fowles invoice dated 3 Feb. 1934. See the Clark’s curatorial file.