Salute
Clara Montalba (1840-1929)
1908
Watercolour
H 30 x W 30 cm.
Collection and image credit: Royal Watercolour Society, London
Accession no. MO249
This later example of Clara Montalba's work in Venice shows her more impressionistic, compared with A Bit of Venice (Venice, The Salute) of 1878. A similar progressive loosening of style can be seen in Turner's handling of the basilica. — Jacqueline Banerjee