Charcoal Boat, Venice
Medium
Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
14 x 9 15/16 in. (35.6 x 25.2 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899
Accession Number
99.38.28
Tags
About this artwork
Andrew Fisher Bunner's "Charcoal Boat, Venice" (1877) The work, executed in black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper, measures 14 x 9 15/16 in. and originates from the eighteenth century, an era of aesthetic refinement and expanding artistic markets. This work provides valuable insights into Andrew Fisher Bunner's artistic practice and the broader cultural and material contexts of its creation.
About the Artist
Andrew Fisher Bunner · 1841–1897
Andrew Fisher Bunner (1841–1897) was an American painter and draughtsman whose luminous watercolors of Venice and the Long Island shore earned him a distinguished reputation among his contemporaries. Born on December 27, 1841, in New York, he studied at the art school founded by Thomas Seir Cummings and took an antique drawing class at the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1863. By 1865 he w...