View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco

Q: When was "View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco" created?

This artwork was created c. 1875.

Q: Is "View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco" in the public domain?

Yes, View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

William Stanley Haseltine

c. 1875

Medium

watercolor over graphite on blue wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.6 × 53.1 cm (14 7/16 × 20 7/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Helen Haseltine Plowden

Accession Number

1956.5.1

Art Historical Context

William Stanley Haseltine, a prominent American landscape artist of the Hudson River School's second generation, captured the enchanting vista of Venice in *View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco* around 1875. This watercolor depicts the shimmering Giudecca Canal with the grand Baroque dome of Santa Maria della Salute and the towering Campanile of St. Mark's Basilica rising in the distance—a quintessential Venetian panorama that Haseltine encountered during his extensive European travels. His works often celebrated the interplay of light, water, and arc...

About the Artist

William Stanley Haseltine

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View across the Giudecca Canal toward the Salute and the Campanile of San Marco

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