View of a Room

salon in the Palazzo Barbaro, Venice (decor. 1797)

From John Kent's Venice:

Ca' Barbaro. A parade of the famous passed through this house after the Curtis family of Boston acquired it in the 19thC. Monet and Sargent each had a studio here; Browning gave recitations; Henry James stayed to write 'The Aspern Papers' and used the house as a setting for 'The Wings of the Dove'; Cole Porter "opened in Venice" with a brief stay in 1923, before moving on to open what Diaghilev called "an idiotic nightclub on a boat moored outside the Salute." The house is really two buildings, the second added in 1694 to accommodate a ballroom - a pressing need.