Greek Sailors on a Venetian Canal
c. 1851
Medium
watercolor over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on blue-gray wove paper, faded to tan
Dimensions
overall: 22.3 × 30.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2013.95.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Friedrich Nerly · 1807–1878
**Friedrich von Nerly** (originally Christian Friedrich Nehrlich, 1807–1878) was a German Romantic painter best known for his luminous vedute of Venice, where he spent most of his adult life. Born in Erfurt to a postal official who died young, he moved at age eight to Hamburg to live with relatives. There he received early drawing instruction from his aunt and later from his uncle, the lithographe...