Palazzo ducale, Court, ca. 1858
MediumAlbumen print
Image dimensions33 x 25 cm
About the workThe Swiss optician and photographer Carlo Ponti published popular editions of pictures of Venetian sights. In the mid-19th century, the trade in tourist images of the lagoon city flourished. This photograph attributed to Ponti shows the inner courtyard of the Doge's Palace, whose façade faces one of the largest canals in Venice. For many centuries, the palace was an important residence of the government and a symbol of Venice's naval power. Ponti and his contemporaries contributed to the image of Venice, still prevailing today, through the mass dissemination of their images.
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 acquired as a gift from Kicken Berlin in memory of Rudolf Kicken
Inventory numberF.2019.461
