Palazzo Ca D'Oro, Venice
Frank Duveneck
1883
Medium
Etching in greenish-black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 37.1 × 49.6 cm (14 5/8 × 19 9/16 in.); Sheet: 43 × 54.6 cm (16 15/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
138435
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...