Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed at lower left, inscribed "The Lagoon with San Giorgio, Della Salute / Entrance to Grand Canal" and "A. F. Bunner / Venice" to verso, presented in a later gilt frame.

Stretcher size 24 x 40 in.; Frame dimensions 31 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.

Andrew Fisher Bunner was an American artist born in New York. He exhibited several works at the National Academy of Design between 1865 to 1870. After a brief sojourn in Louisville, Kentucky, Bunner spent the next decade traveling throughout Europe. He returned to New York in 1879 and exhibited several of his European landscapes, including The Riva, Venice and A Fisherman’s Cottage in the Tyrol at the National Academy.
Venice called to Bunner once again and he lived in “La Serenissima” from 1883 to 1887. Following his death in 1897, his obituary in The Sun noted that his work had been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Paris Salon and the National Academy of Design. Bunner’s works are in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Patch to verso with minor associated retouch; faint, stable craquelure; some over-cleaning to sky; minor horizontal crack to paint at top center of canvas; several minor perforations to canvas at lower left above signature.