L'Ospedale Civile, Venice

Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

ca. 1901

Oil on canvas

Yale Center for British Art

A painting depicts a canal in Venice with gondolas docked along the side and a large building with a dome and arched entrance on the right. A brick bridge arches over the canal in the background. A painting depicts a canal in Venice with gondolas docked along the side and a large building with a dome and arched entrance on the right. A brick bridge arches over the canal in the background. Sickert lived in Venice for several periods during the years 1895-1904, moved easily in the international artistic and literary society that flourished there, producing a large number of drawings, etchings, and paintings of Venetian subjects. He enjoyed the challenge of treating afresh the famous sights painted by such familiar masters as Canaletto and Turner-as well as by his former mentor Whistler-and brought to them a vision formed in pa