Approach to Venice

Approach to Venice is an 1844 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner.^{[1] [2]} Produced late in the artist's career, it depicts a view of Venice from the North, across the Lagoon.^[3] Turner produced many views of Venice during the 1830s and 1840s, depicting it in Romantic pre-Impressionist style.

Approach to Venice
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1844
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape
Dimensions	62 cm × 94 cm (24 in × 37 in)
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square with a couplet from Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. It was described by John Ruskin as "the most perfectly beautiful piece of colour of all I have seen produced by human hands, by any means, or at any period".^[4] Today the work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1937.^[5]

See also

• List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner