id: 152765 accession number: 1985.56 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.56 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:28.966000 The Doge's Palace, Venice, 1826. Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828). Oil on millboard; framed: 53.5 x 61 x 6 cm (21 1/16 x 24 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 35.5 x 42.7 cm (14 x 16 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1985.56 title: The Doge's Palace, Venice title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1826 creation date earliest: 1826 creation date latest: 1826 current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: oil on millboard department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828) - artist Richard Parkes Bonington was born in Arnold near Nottingham, the son of a portrait painter of indifferent talent and quixotic temperament. In autumn 1817 the family established a lace manufactur-ing business in Calais, where Bonington studied watercolor painting briefly with the Anglo-French artist Louis Francia (1772-1839). Two years later he enrolled in the atelier of Gros (q.v.) but was an irregular student. His disillusionment with Gros lead to a stormy departure in 1822. In the same year he exhibited at the Paris Salon topographical watercolors from the first of his several tours of Normandy. These established his repu-tation as a landscape painter and drafts-man of medieval architecture. However, the group of five marine paintings submitted to the 1824 Salon, for which he was awarded a gold medal, confirmed his preeminence in the French romantic school. Bonington made the first of sev-eral trips to London in 1825, after which he shared a studio with Eugène Delacroix (q.v.) in Paris until his departure for a brief tour of Northern Italy in April 1826. It was Delacroix who persuaded Bonington to expand his interests beyond landscape to include figural subjects. In the final two hectic years of his life, Bonington produced mostly Venetian views and historical and literary illustra-tions, which he exhibited at both the 1827-28 Paris Salon and the 1828 Royal Academy exhibitions. He died in London from tuberculosis in September 1828. Despite the brevity of his career, Bonington's protean originality and dazzling virtuoso style inspired a host of French and British imitators, while his relationships with Delacroix and the landscape painters Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Paul Huet (1803-1869) would be of cardinal importance to the subsequent development of French painting. --- measurements: Framed: 53.5 x 61 x 6 cm (21 1/16 x 24 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 35.5 x 42.7 cm (14 x 16 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1985 opening date: 1986-02-12T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Sotheby's London, United Kingdom, possibly Bonington Sale, June 29-30,1829, lot 215, sold to Glynn) . . . . date: possibly 1829 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom, February 10, 1838, possibly Mrs. Bonington, the artist's mother, sale, lot 124, to Mawe, bought in). date: possibly 1838 footnotes: citations: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom, possibly William Benoni sale, May 23, 1879, lot 86, sold to Permain. J. Hood (according to label on reverse). date: possibly 1879 footnotes: citations: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom, April 28, 1888, possibly W.A. Turner of Manchester sale, lot 106, sold to Harari & Johns Ltd.) . date: possibly 1888 footnotes: citations: (Harari & Johns Ltd., London, United Kingdom, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: At age seventeen, Bonington began teaching precision drawing at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and he was essential to bringing aspects of the English style to France. digital description: wall description: At the age of 22, Bonington achieved overnight success at the official (state sponsored) Paris exhibition known as Salon. Two years later, in 1826, he journeyed to Venice, a city that had long attracted landscape artists. At first, constant rain greatly depressed Bonington, but suddenly the weather changed and Venice was at its glorious best. Bonington frequently painted outdoors, capturing immediate impressions of Venetian architecture and sunlight. He made this particular study from a boat anchored in the lagoon near the Doge's Palace. The thick swirls of paint, with colors mixed together while still wet, indicates how rapidly the artist worked. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Noon, Patrick J. Richard Parkes Bonington--on the Pleasure of Painting. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1991. page number: url: D 'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH:The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: Noon, Patrick J. Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. . page number: Reproduced: p. 288, fig. 227 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.56/1985.56_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.56/1985.56_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.56/1985.56_full.tif