In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17)Richard Parkes Bonington (Yale Center for British Art, 1991-11-13 - 1992-01-19)
Publications:
Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital ArchiveJohn Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 293, no. 108, pl. 108, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Bruce Boucher, Vedute and Opera, Apollo, v. 119, no. 265, March 1984, p. 217, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Christie's Advertisement for Sale on Friday, June 18, 1971, Apollo, v. 93, no. 112, June 1971, p. 23, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Christie's Sale Catalogue: English Pictures c. 1700- c. 1850, 18 June 1971, Christie's, 1971, p. 33, Lot 108, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Bonington, Phaidon, Oxford, 1989, pp. 6-7, 120-21, fig. 1, NJ18 B65 C67 + (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 26-27, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)James Gardner, A Poet in Paint, Magazine Antiques, vol. 178, January/February 2011, pp. 194-201, NK1125 A3 OVERSIZEGrand Canal, Venice (Art Reproduction), Apollo, v. 93, no. 112, June 1971, p. 23, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Luke Herrmann, Nineteenth century British painting, Giles de la Mare, London, 2000, no. 35, ND467 H47 2000 (YCBA)Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : "On the pleasure of painting", , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1991, p. 212, no. 96, NJ18 B65 N66 1991 + (YCBA)Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington : the complete paintings, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, p. 305, no. 240, NJ18 B65 A12 N66 2008 + (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sales, Athenaeum, , April, 1878, p.483, British PeriodicalsAndrew Shirley, Bonington, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., London, 1940, p 103, pl. 93, NJ18 B65 S5The Pictures of the late R. P. Bonington, The Times (London), , Tuesday, August 27, 1833, p. 5, Available online : Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm : An T482 (SML)The Sale Room, Apollo, v. 94, no. 115, September 1971, fig. 7, N1 A54 + (YCBA)View on the Grand Canal, Venice (Art Reproduction), Connoisseur, v. 178, November 1971, p. 221, N1 C75 + (YCBA)Wildenstein Loan Exhibition Venice Rediscovered 8 November - 15 December, November, 1972, p. 81, N1 A54 + (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Richard Parkes Bonington left Paris for Italy with his friend and pupil Charles Rivet, later Baron Rivet, on April 4, 1826. They arrived in Venice in late April and stayed there until the end of May. Bonington sketched incessantly in graphite, watercolor, and oils. He had begun sketching en plein air in oils on small millboards, which he discovered during a trip to London in 1825. He seems to have brought back about two dozen such sketches on millboard from Italy. This example shows the north side of the Grand Canal looking toward the Bacino di San Marco. While Bonington has deftly captured the brilliant shimmering light on the water and the facades of the palazzi, topographical accuracy was clearly not a priority. He has elided the famous Palazzo Gritti-Pisani from the succession of buildings lining the canal. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016