Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice by John Singer Sargent Cloth Placemat

Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice (1899) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art impressionism watercolor painting featuring gondolas in a canal in Venice, Italy. About the artist: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era. Sargent is usually not thought of as an Impressionism painter, but he sometimes used impressionistic techniques to great effect with his own version of the impressionist style.