The Rialto, Venice

The Rialto, Venice by Frank Duveneck

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 26.35 × 44.45 cm (10 3/8 × 17 1/2 in.) plate: 28.58 × 49.85 cm (11 1/4 × 19 5/8 in.) sheet: 37.47 × 58.1 cm (14 3/4 × 22 7/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of John W. Beatty, Jr.

Accession Number

1964.4.5

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...

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