# Ponte della Paglia, Venice [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PRENDERGAST, Maurice Brazil]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 71 x 59 cm ## Commentary PRENDERGAST, Maurice Brazil \(b. 1859, St. John's, Newfoundland, d. 1924, New York\) Ponte della Paglia, Venice 1899 Oil on canvas, 71 x 59 cm Phillips Collection, Washington Prendergast studied in Paris and readily absorbed Post-Impressionist aesthetics after 1890. His lively compositions guaranteed him success not long after his return to Boston in 1894. His financial circumstances assured, he was able to depart for Europe again in 1898. In Europe he would spend almost two years in France but also in Italy, where he visited Rome, Capri, Siena and - above all - Venice. ## Related artworks - [Along the Shore]() - [Central Park, New York]() - [Umbrellas in the Rain]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()