Lord Frederic Leighton | Houses in Venice | L848

Key facts

Full title	Houses in Venice
Artist	Lord Frederic Leighton
Artist dates	1830 - 1896
Date made	perhaps 1867
Medium and support	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	25 × 39.5 cm
Acquisition credit	The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
Inventory number	L848
Location	Not on display
Image copyright	The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery, © Private collection 2000. Used by permission
Collection	Main Collection

Houses in Venice

Lord Frederic Leighton

This view is probably from a hotel window in Venice, as the vertical band of paint at far right suggests a window frame. At left, a tall thin cypress, its tip caught in the sunlight as it breaks above the roofline, rises from a courtyard. Long shadows fall across the roof that runs across the middle ground of the painting, while brilliant touches of light, perhaps reflected from the water of a canal far below, dance across the wall. This is one of Leighton's most original oil sketches.

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Houses in Venice by Lord Frederic Leighton

Lord Frederic Leighton, Houses in Venice

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