- Title:
- Houses in Venice
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- This view is probably from a hotel window in Venice, as the vertical band of paint at far right suggests a window frame. At left, a tall thin cypress, its tip caught in the sunlight as it breaks above the roofline, rises from a courtyard. Long shadows fall across the roof that runs across the middle ground of the painting, while brilliant touches of light, perhaps reflected from the water of a canal far below, dance across the wall. This is one of Leighton's most original oil sketches.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/958/896/647/mid_L-0848-00-000004.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 39.50
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- Oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Object production date:
- perhaps 1867
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1867
- Date - latest:
- 1867
- Object production person:
- Frederic, Lord Leighton
- Person's birth date:
- 1830
- Person's death date:
- 1896
- Other number:
- L848
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F1K-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L848
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-033V-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l2848
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Victorian
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ad9479b3-3288-310f-8acc-aa7d70dc15a8
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ad9479b3-3288-310f-8acc-aa7d70dc15a8, National Gallery, CC BY
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