Rio e Campanile San Martino, Venice
Medium
Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
13 x 9 3/4 in. (33 x 24.8 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
99.38.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1883, American artist Andrew Fisher Bunner the enchanting Venetian vista of *Rio e Campanile Martino, Venice* using pen and black ink off-white wove paper This intimate drawing (13 x 9 3/4 in.) depicts a quintessential slice of the city's labyrinthine canals and historic architecture, with the slender Campanile of San Martino church rising gracefully against the watery backdrop. Bunner's precise line work evokes the romantic allure of Venice, a perennial muse for travelers. As part of the late 19th-century American fascination with European grandeur, Bunner's work reflects the Gilded Age t...
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...