Views of Venice...
10:34 a.m.
Since forever, artists have been seduced by the views of the city of Venice...
Venice, a view of the Dogana seen through a large doorway, by Charles-Auguste van den Berghe (France, 1798-1853)
Technique: oil on canvas
Bridge of sighs, by John Singer Sargent (c 1903-4)
Technique: watercolors with graphite.
Palazzo Contarini, by Claude Monet (1908)
Technique: oil on canvas / Measures: 92 x 81 cm
So bewitched by the city were the artists that some of them, as Félix Ziem (France, 1831-1911), painted several times the same landscape, from different angles and in different times of day.
Grand Canal (Venice), by Félix Francois Georges Philibert Zeim
Technique: oil on cardboard / Measures: 51 x 85.5 cm
The Grand Canal (Venice), by Félix Francois Georges Philibert Zeim
Technique: oil on cardboard
TTechnique: oil on cardboard
The MNBA is lucky enough to have one Félix Zeim's painting, who belonged to the School of Barbizon.
Barbizon was a small town near Fontainebleau and was the chosen place for a group of artists who decided to leave Paris and do open air -plein air- paintings with the nature surrounding them.
By mid-19th century, Zeim goes to Italy and is dazzled by Venice, where he would perform several paintings. Many of them are still in Martigues, in France, near Provence, where there's a museum under his name.
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