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| Keywords: Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker - The Petition to the Doge - Walters 37162.jpg A doge standing in a palace doorway is confronted by a petitioner; a lady in black who kneeling on the pavement holds her young daughter before her A halberdier guarding the entrance glances at the kneeling figure Behind in the shadows at the right is an elderly woman with bowed head and clasped hands The doge's retinue includes his page who carries the trailing robe and several attendants discernible in the sunlit interior beyond the portal The artist's distinctively rich palette said to have been inspired by the Venetian Seicento is evinced in the sumptuous gold brocades crimson velvet and white ermine of the doge's attire the variegated marbles of the architecture and the gilding of the picture frame at the left Another version of the subject also entitled Petition to a Doge dated 1862 is reproduced in Clarence Cook Art and Artists of Our Time New York 1888 2 91 In this work the halberdier has been replaced by a large greyhound 1860 oil on canvas cm 132 1 106 accession number 37 162 24072 W M Webb New York date and mode of acquisition unknown William T / Henry Walters city Baltimore through S P Avery Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters 1876 Signature In red at lower left C Becker; Date In red at lower left 1860 German 19th Century Paintings and Drawings The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker German paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Paintings of people of Venice Unidentified Doges Doges of Venice with ermine Paintings of the Doge's Palace Venice | ||||
