The Venetian Girl (c. 1880): Art, History and Details

The Venetian Girl (c. 1880) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Frank Duveneck (American, 1848–1919).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Frank Duveneck loved Venice and spent several months there during the early decades of his career. Titled The Venetian Girl, this painting depicts a young woman—likely an artist’s model—who holds a shallow brass bowl containing lemons and grapes.

Object facts

• Title: The Venetian Girl
• Date: c. 1880
• Creator attribution: Frank Duveneck (American, 1848–1919)
• Culture: America
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 86.7 x 62.6 cm (34 1/8 x 24 5/8 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1922.173

A detail from the museum

The artist was also an esteemed art instructor, teaching hundreds of students in Germany, Italy, and the United States.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• F. A. W. “Duveneck’s the Venetian Girl.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 9, no. 8 (October 1922): 136–141.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.

View the collection record

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