Contact gallery for price		Emilio Sanchez-Perrier Spanish, 1855-1907 Grand Canal, Venice Oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches (28 x 41 inches framed) Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Private collection, Florida Emilio Sanchez-Perrier studied at the school of Fine Arts in Seville and later at the school of Fine Arts in Madrid.  In 1871 he lived with Martin Rico in Granada, where he became friends with Mariano Fortuny.  In 1879 he lived in Paris and studied at the studios of Auguste Bolard, Leon Gerome and Felix Ziem. He exhibited in various group exhibitions: In 1878 at the exhibition of the national fine arts society of Madrid; in 1879 at the Cadiz regional exhibition, where he was awarded a gold metal; and from 1880 at the Salon des Artistes Francais, receiving a commendation in 1886 and a silver metal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. He was made a member of the Seville fine art academy. Sanchez Perrier painted landscapes, genre, architectures, and water scenes.  Sanchez- Perrier is best known for his scenic paintings of Venice, which feature intimate views as well as large vistas of this iconic European city.  Sanchez- Perrier’s romantic atmospheric style of painting remains very popular and his works can be found in important private and museum collections throughout America and Europe. The realistic details and spontaneous composition in his paintings suggest that he may have used the young medium of photography as a supplement to his painting technique. Our painting features Sanchez-Perrier’s most beloved and well-known subject, the Grand Canal of Venice.  The romantic depiction of the canal, delicacy of coloring, and poetic grasp of atmosphere are hallmarks of the artist’s oeuvre.  Here he presents a broad stretch of canal with moored gondolas and the façades of buildings.  A luminous sky highlights the church of Santa Maria della Salute. An iconic presence in Venetian scenes, the church, completed in 1682 and inspired by traditions of Venetian Byzantine architecture as well as Rome’s St. Peter’s, sits at the dramatic tip of Dorsoduro where the Grand Canal merges with the St. Mark’s Basin.  The point of view is that of a traveler entering the famed canal. In his signature manner, Sanchez- Perrier captures the essence of Venice’s beauty and serenity.