Doorway in Venice with Closed Doors

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1917.151
People: Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title: Doorway in Venice with Closed Doors
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1887
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305922

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

39.2 x 29.1 cm (15 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: gray watercolor, l.l.: Joseph Lindon Smith / Venice 1887
inscription: lower margin, graphite: 11 x 14 3/8

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year: 1917
Object Number: 1917.151
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Elizabeth Anne McCauley and Alan Chong, Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2004), p. 103, fig. 74 (color), detail repr. p. x (color)
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2009), p. 27, fig. 8

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