Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice, 1833 Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

Location: Tate Gallery London United Kingdom
Original Size: 51.1 x 81.6 cm

Oil Painting Reproduction

$1198.14 USD
Condition:Unframed
SKU:TJW-14395
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Completely Hand Painted
Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
Museum Quality
+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-9 Weeks
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We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.

We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.

High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Joseph Mallord William Turner also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.

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We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner's 1833 painting, "Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice," is like Venice itself - chaotic yet breathtaking, and drenched in the kind of light that makes you feel as if you’ve stumbled into a dream. Turner doesn't simply paint a scene; he bathes Venice in an otherworldly glow that almost makes the architecture melt into the very water it sits upon. The city’s iconic landmarks - the Ducal Palace, the Custom House, and of course, the Bridge of Sighs - loom with a ghostly presence, their pale stone façades catching the sunlight in a dance between clarity and haze.

The composition is expansive, pulling your eye from the clustered boats in the foreground to the towering Campanile of San Marco in the distance. There's a sense of vastness, but also of intimacy - a contradiction that only Turner could pull off. He sprinkles gondolas and fishing boats like breadcrumbs across the water, leading you deeper into the cityscape.

And those colors! Turner’s palette here is dominated by soft blues, browns, and golds, with smudges of red and ochre bleeding through in places. The way he applies his paint is almost reckless, as if he’s too impatient for detail, too hungry for atmosphere. Swaths of sky dissolve into the canal below, and you almost lose where one ends and the other begins. The painting is as much about air and light as it is about Venice.

Turner doesn’t just show us Venice; he shows us how it *feels* - ephemeral, light-soaked, and alive in a way that defies the usual limitations of paint on canvas.
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