A very beautiful lithograph of Venice, in faded pink and green colours, where the façade of the Doges’ Palace, on the Riva degli Schiavoni side, occupies a large part of the upper left-hand side of the work. A row of gondolas is positioned diagonally across the lower right-hand side of the drawing, held up by wooden poles that extend across the right-hand side.

The artist’s pen takes pleasure in rendering the details of the Gothic architecture of the arcades, the diversity of the surfaces, the curves of the gondolas and the verticality of the poles. The precise graphic design of the palace and the parallelism of the gondolas convey all the grace and imposing strength of this city.

But the ogival shapes are repeated, from the windows to the gondolas, and even impose themselves on the wooden poles. Together with the row of gondolas, which are so well aligned on the watery façade of the Basin of San Marco, they create another graphic arrangement that is equally Gothic.