Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Title:
L'Ospedale Civile, Venice
Date:
ca. 1901
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 x 18 1/2 inches (66 x 47 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1987.26.2
Gallery Label:
Sickert lived in Venice for several periods during the years 1895-1904, moved easily in the international artistic and literary society that flourished there, producing a large number of drawings, etchings, and paintings of Venetian subjects. He enjoyed the challenge of treating afresh the famous sights painted by such familiar masters as Canaletto and Turner-as well as by his former mentor Whistler-and brought to them a vision formed in part upon Monet's recent series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral under different conditions of light and atmosphere. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2008
