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Victor Jean Nicolle
1754-1826
View of the Grand Canal
Pen and brown ink and wash with black chalk on laid paper.
6 5/16 x 5 9/16 inches (161 x 142 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.223
Notes:
Victor Jean Nicolle's relatively small corpus includes many drawings with views of Italy and Rome. He spent two extended periods of time in Italy, from 1787 to 1798 and again from 1806-1811. It was during either the former or latter period when Nicolle created this view of the Grand Canal in Venice. An inscription at the bottom of the sheet indicates that Nicolle sketched the scene from the viewpoint of the Reggio Canal. This sheet is close in style and composition to a second Venetian scene by Nicolle also from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection (inv. 2009.224).
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, "vue du canal majeur prise en face du canal reggio a venise"
Provenance:
Joseph F. McCrindle, New York (McCrindle collection no. A0725).
Associated names:
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
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