Bridge of Sighs, Venice
1885
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Accession Number
1972.70
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About this artwork
Painter and printmaker Frank Duveneck was a pivotal figure in the community of American artists working in Venice in the late nineteenth century. After training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he moved to Italy, oscillating between Florence and Venice with a tight circle of friends and students. Their group, mostly young men who shared scant financial resources, earned the nickname "the Duveneck Boys," and they honed their art skills by depicting a range of subjects, including archi...
About the Artist
Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) was an American painter, etcher, and teacher whose dark, bravura style made him one of the most celebrated and influential American artists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Covington, Kentucky, he showed early artistic promise and eventually made his way to Munich, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Diez. Munich's artistic culture...