Basilica di Santa Maria from the Grand Canal, Venice
1890. Ink and sepia wash on light wove paper, 5 1/8 x 4 inches (128 x 100 mm), signed in brown ink and dated in black ink below the image. Scattered light foxing and uniform toning. Adhered to nonarchival white cardstock, creating minor cockling, and obscuring the verso.
Alberto Prosdocimi (1852-1925) was an Italian watercolorist and celebrated mansucript illuminator known for his atmospheric cityscapes and interior views of Venice. His canal scences are simple yet masterful, filled with languid motion, light, and shadow. Prosdocimi was one of the collaborators of the masterwork La basilica di S. Marco illustrata nella storia e nell'arte (1878–93), published by Ferdinando Ongania, for which he created all of the drawings of the Basilica that were reproduced as chromolithographs.
Item number: 1227
Price: $500.00
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