Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. J. King Rosendale, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (?-2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 15, 2000-)
View of Venice: The Dome of Santa Maria della Salute Seen from the Rear of the Da Mula Palace, looking Eastward
1853
Accession Number
1999.273
Medium
watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 47.2 x 65.7 cm (18 9/16 x 25 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. King Rosendale
Tags
Drawing Neoclassical & Romantic (1751–1850) Watercolor British
Background & Context
Background Story
Frank Dillon (1826-1892) was a British painter known for the precisely observed, atmospheric views of Italian subjects that make him one of the accomplished painters of the British-Italian veduta tradition. View of Venice: The Dome of Santa Maria della Salute from 1853 depicts the dome of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice in the precisely observed, atmospheric manner that distinguishes Dillon's best work from the more general veduta painting of his contemporaries. Santa Maria della Salute is one of the most iconic landmarks of Venice, and Dillon's precisely observed, atmospheric treatment shows the Venetian veduta tradition at its most accomplished.
Cultural Impact
View of Venice: The Dome of Santa Maria della Salute is important in the history of veduta painting because it demonstrates the precisely observed, atmospheric manner that Dillon brought to Venetian subjects as one of the accomplished painters of the British-Italian veduta tradition. Dillon's precisely observed, atmospheric views of Venice—depicting one of the most iconic landmarks of the city—represent one of the accomplished traditions in British-Italian veduta painting, and the 1853 painting shows this tradition at its most precisely observed.
Why It Matters
View of Venice is Dillon's precisely observed Venetian veduta: the dome of Santa Maria della Salute rendered in the atmospheric manner of one of the accomplished painters of the British-Italian veduta tradition. The 1853 painting shows one of the most iconic landmarks of Venice at its most precisely observed.
