Gondolier

Henri Regnault

ca. 1868 · Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite · Drawings and Prints

After winning the Prix de Rome, Regnault went to Italy in 1867. He seems to have passed through Venice very briefly in 1868, where he may have observed such a gondolier at work. He was disappointed with the city, finding it "insufficiently luminous," and with Italy in general. His work flourished instead in Spain during his travels in 1868−69. Stylistically, this work relates closely to the watercolors of Spanish types he produced at that time.

Artist

Henri Regnault

Date

ca. 1868

Medium

Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Paul Jeromack, 2021