DrawingsAmerican19th century

Summer in Venice

c. 1898-1899

Artists

Maurice Brazil PrendergastArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

49.5 × 35.9 cm (19 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.) frame: 71.8 × 56.4 × 2.2 cm (28 1/4 × 22 3/16 × 7/8 in.) mat: 66.7 × 50.8 cm (26 1/4 × 20 in.)

Provenance

Possibly purchased from the artist by Private Collector, by descent; to Private Collector, partial gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Related Artworks

Drawings

View of Mountains

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Portrait of Nettie Huxley, Daughter of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley

John Singer Sargent, 1899

Graphite on ivory paper mounted on board

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Standing Man Regarding a Recumbent Figure, for "Death of King John"

Washington Allston, c. 1837

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Male Profile Head in Cap; Two Small Landscapes; verso: Figure in a Landscape

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1851

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Rocks, Sea, and Sky

Merton Clivette, 19th-20th century

Tempera on heavy buff wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

View of Cotuit

Mrs. Abbott Lawrence (Anna Parker) Lowell, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Designs for Vaulting Ornament with Rudimentary Lettering (recto and verso)

John Singer Sargent, c. 1895 - c. 1916

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Two Studies for a Skirt, for "Family Group"

Washington Allston, 1830 - 1833

Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape near Varenna, Italy

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Cottages in France

Charles Herbert Moore, 1882

Watercolor, white gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Decorative Design

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Male Portrait Head

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite and black crayon on cream wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican