Domenico Bresolin
[Rio de la Canonica with the Bridge of Sighs, Venice]

CultureItalian
Titles
  • [Rio de la Canonica with the Bridge of Sighs, Venice]
Datec. 1860, printed c. 1860
Place depictedVenice, Italy
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 14 3/16 × 11 1/2 in. (36 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 11 1/2 in. (37.1 × 29.2 cm)
Mount: 25 5/16 × 19 1/2 in. (64.3 × 49.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2023 and John and Nancy Nolan Parsley in honor of Ulisse Marinoni
Object number2023.166
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

This picture is likely the work of Domenico Bresolin, best known as a painter of vedute (Venetian cityscapes). Here, the artist presents the view one might glimpse while strolling the streets and crossing the canals of the city. Spanning the canal in the distance but out of reach is one of the city’s most famous sights, the exquisite Bridge of Sighs. Built in 1600 to connect the courtrooms of the Doge’s Palace and the prison, it afforded the condemned their final view of Venice, of the beautiful canals and architecture—the living city—that Bresolin places in the foreground.


ProvenancePrivate collection, Toulon, France; [Serge Kakou, Paris, 1985]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition History"Voir l'Italie et mourir. Photographie et peinture dans l'Italie du XIXe siècle", Musée d'Orsay, Paris, April 7–July 19, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[On the mount, "Canale di Canonica" in pencil and several other small recent inscriptions in pencil.]

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