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Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (92.2 x 73 cm)
Purchased by Margaret Davies, 1913
National Museum Wales; Miss Margaret S.
Davies Bequest, 1963 (NMWA 2481)
Courtesy American Federation of Arts


Claude Monet traveled to Venice for the first time in October 1908 with his second wife, Alice. He stayed for more than two months and during his stay began thirty-seven canvases. He wrote, “What a pity I never came here when I was younger, when I was still full of daring!” The Palazzo Dario was built in 1497 for Giovanni Dario, the secretary of the Venetian senate, and can also be seen in Palazzo Eleanora Duse, Venice by Walter Richard Sickert, in this exhibition. Monet painted four different versions of this view. Here, the palace is cropped and cut midway by a gondola whose felze (the covered central area) echoes the arches of the windows, connecting the upper and lower parts of the canvas. Although dated 1908, it is unlikely that this work was completed before 1912, when Monet revisited all his Venetian canvases following the death of his wife in 1911.