• Carl Werner

  1808-1894

Saint Mark?s Square in Venice with the Doge?s Palace and Saint Mark?s Basilica

• Production Date

  1842

• Type of Work / Object

  Drawing > Watercolor

• Location

  • Not on display

• Inventory Number

  D787

• Catalogue Number

  D787

• Catalogue Level / Collection

  Thorvaldsen's Collections > Collection of Drawings (D)

Explanation

• After finishing his training, the German architecture and landscape artist, Carl Werner, went to Italy and Rome, where he converted to Catholicism. In 1851, he established a school of watercolour painting in Venice. This drawing, however, was probably done much earlier. Werner knew Thorvaldsen, who had several of his works in his collections.

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