| Approach to Venice | |
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| Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year | 1844 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape |
| Dimensions | 62 cm× 94 cm(24 in× 37 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
Approach to Venice is an 1844 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] [2] Produced late in the artist's career, it depicts a view of Venice from the North, across the Lagoon. [3] Turner produced many views of Venice during the 1830s and 1840s, depicting it in Romantic pre-Impressionist style.
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The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square with a couplet from Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage . It was described by John Ruskin as "the most perfectly beautiful piece of colour of all I have seen produced by human hands, by any means, or at any period". [4] Today the work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1937. [5]
