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Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter
ca. 1885
Robert Frederick Blum
Born: Cincinnati, Ohio 1857
Died: New York, New York 1903
oil on canvas
34 x 23 1/8 in. (86.5 x 58.6 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of William T. Evans
1909.7.7
Renwick Gallery
Grand Salon
In this piece, Robert Blum positioned the viewer as though he were looking down a narrow Venetian canal from a boat on the water. The view shows the Rio Ogni Santi (River of All Saints), in the San Trovaso Quarter, where Blum lived for a time. He spent many summers and winters in Venice, and his sketches, pastels, and paintings capture the city's bright colors and hodgepodge of buildings. In the center of the waterway a man steers a sandolo, which is a smaller, lighter version of a gondola.
This painting is currently on view at the Museum's Renwick Gallery.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Architecture Exterior - domestic - apartment
Architecture - bridge
Cityscape - Italy - Venice
Cityscape - street - San Trovaso Quarter
Figure(s) in exterior - urban
Waterscape - canal
painting
paint - oil
fabric - canvas
About Robert Frederick Blum
Born: Cincinnati, Ohio 1857 Died: New York, New York 1903
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