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Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice

Item

Subject

Night-time landscape of ships on a lagoon.

Description

This painting depicts the dark scene of a lagoon near Venice at nightfall. Boats and gondolas float in the waters beyond the cityscape.

Creator

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Source

Wikimedia Commons

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons, 17 October 2012, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler_-_Nocturne_in_Blue_and_Silver-_The_Lagoon,_Venice_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Date

1879-1880

Contributor

Paige York

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

N/A

Format

.jpeg

Language

N/A

Type

N/A

Identifier

N/A

Coverage

N/A

Original Format

Oil Painting

Physical Dimensions

5425 x 4159

Citation

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice,” The Lyon Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://lyon.eastendarchives.net/items/show/216.