Riva degli Schiavone, No. 1
1880
Medium
etching and roulette in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.75 × 33.34 cm (8 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet: 27.62 × 43.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.593
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...