DrawingsAmerican20th century
The Grand Canal, Venice
c. 1902
Artists
John Singer SargentArtist
Dimensions
24.8 × 35.2 cm (9 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.) mat: 45.4 × 54.6 cm (17 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.) frame: 49.1 × 58.3 × 2.1 cm (19 5/16 × 22 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Leon Delafosse, c 1902 (?); sold, presumably by Delafosse, at Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1939, lot 52; purchased by "Lion"; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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