- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 724 × 1130 mm
frame: 886 × 1287 × 70 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- N04661
Catalogue entry
507. [N04661] Riva degli Schiavone, Venice: Water Fete c. 1845
THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (4661)
Canvas, 28 3/8 × 44 1/4 (72 × 112·5)
Coll. Turner Bequest 1856 (? 138 or 139, 2 each 3'9" × 2'4 1/2"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1938.
Exh. Paris 1953 (86).
Companion to No. 508 [N04659] and like it similar in style to the rather larger Nos. 505 [N02068] and 506 [N04660].
This picture is so thickly painted that it may have been executed over another composition.
Published in:
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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