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| Title | A Venetian Byway | |
| Collection | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Artist | Cousin, Charles-Louis-Auguste (French painter and printmaker, 1807-1887) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly 1860 | |
| Date Latest | possibly 1870 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Cousins favoured landscapes of Italy and France painted in a realist style. This scene of a Venetian canal, with a bridge and gondola is typical of his works of the 1870s, and part of a huge market in scenes of Venice at the time. | |
| Current Accession Number | 2894 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'Ch. Cousins' | |
| Subject | landscape; place (Venice); marine | |
| Measurements | 37.4 x 54.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by J. G. Graves 1943. | |
| Provenance | Trustees of the late A.B. Fleming sale, Christie's, 1933, lot 8, 1933, bought by J. G. Graves. | |
| Rights Owner | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Author | Alastair Smith | |