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Masqueraders Boarding Gondolas before a Venetian Palazzo

Eugène Lami · 1869

Palette

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Artist

Eugène Lami
1800–1890

Date

1869

Type

Drawing & watercolour

Medium

pen and brown ink and pen and black ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper (laid on old wove card)

Size

sheet: 26 × 46.2 cm (10 1/4 × 18 3/16 in.)

Place

French

Period

18th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 15

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1890: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1961. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules