Art, literature & history
A Corner of the Library in Venice
1904/1907
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite, with white gouache on thick wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 58.2 × 46.2 cm (22 15/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1970.17.172
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singer Sargent. A Corner of the Library in Venice. John Singer Sargent; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent,_A_Corner_of_the_Library_in_Venice,_1904-1907,_NGA_52316.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Corner of the Library in Venice — John Singer Sargent. 1904/1907.
Medium: watercolor over graphite, with white gouache on thick wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 58.2 × 46.2 cm (22 15/16 × 18 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1970.17.172. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.