The Armington couple travelled to Italy in 1912. Venice, its canal, its monuments and its sights made a particular impression on Frank Armington. The Grand Canal, lined with palace facades with palis to hang the gondolas from, opens up a wide path leading our gaze towards the domes of Santa Maria della...
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The Armington couple travelled to Italy in 1912. Venice, its canal, its monuments and its sights made a particular impression on Frank Armington. The Grand Canal, lined with palace facades with palis to hang the gondolas from, opens up a wide path leading our gaze towards the domes of Santa Maria della Salute. This is a very distinctive view, and one that will remain forever engraved in the memories of Venice's admirers.
The plate was engraved in 1913 and entered the Chalcographie collection on 25 February 1931.
Frank Armington was of Canadian origin, but practised his art as an engraver and painter mainly in Paris from 1900 onwards. With his wife Caroline, herself an engraver, they trained at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Their artistic careers were closely linked and essentially based in France, although they travelled extensively (the Netherlands, Germany, England, Italy, Algeria). The Armingtons had a tourist's curiosity about landscapes, towns and monuments. Their interpretation is poetic, simple and harmonious, to the taste of travellers of all times. Frank showed a particular taste for sketched lines in the study of figures and portraits.
His 700 etchings, drypoints, lithographs and paintings were added to the collections of many European and American museums, because their art was so popular.
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