A thin, narrow-shouldered woman holding a black shawl close to her body walks toward us down an alleyway past a pair of men wearing all black in this horizontal painting. One of the men’s faces is in shadow but all three people seem to have light skin. The woman’s shawl wraps around her shoulders and the bottom hem, edged with fringe, kicks around her shins over a long, cream-white skirt. A stroke of magenta pink at her neck, perhaps her shirt, is echoed in the deep pink of her closed, full lips. Her gaze seems to be downcast, and her features, like much of the rest of the scene, are loosely…
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Street in Venice

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1882

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.1 x 53.9 cm (17 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.) ; framed: 65.41 × 76.2 × 7.62 cm (25 3/4 × 30 × 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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