The Doge's Palace, Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington

Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington

Title: The Doge's Palace, Venice

Edition Details: Archival pigment print on cotton/polly blend museum canvas with a satin finish. The 16x20 image framed in our classic silver ornate, solid wood moulding. Open edition.

Curator's Note: Richard Parkes Bonington painted The Doge's Palace, Venice in 1826 from a boat anchored in the lagoon — working directly from observation, his colors mixed wet-into-wet on millboard, the whole thing completed in a single session of concentrated looking. He was twenty-three years old, had already achieved overnight success at the Paris Salon, and had less than two years to live. The result is a painting that carries all of that urgency: the Gothic tracery of the Palazzo Ducale rendered with almost casual authority, the working boats in the foreground as present and solid as the architecture behind them, and above it all a sky that belongs unmistakably to the man who would help teach an entire generation of French painters how to see.