Walter Richard Sickert
1860 Munich – 1942 Bath
Gli Scalzi. The Church of the Barefoot Friars, c. 1895-1896
Watercolour. Size of sheet: 19.5 x 16.5 cm.
Signed and inscribed Scalzi Venezia
Literature: Baron 2006, n. 108.2
Provenance: Lucy Carrington Wertheim;
with Anthony Hepworth, 2014.
Exhibitions: Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Sickert. An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1957, n. 157a.
The watercolor represents three worshippers praying inside the Baroque church by Baldassare Longhena next to the Venetian railway station. Sickert visited Venice in 1895 for the first time and sojourned there periodically until 1896, enchanted by its great monuments and churches.