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Canaletto, born in Venice in 1697, initially worked with his father, who was a stage designer. He traveled to Rome around 1720 and his contact with Dutch and Flemish painters working there apparently affected the young artist, for he turned to landscape painting soon after returning to Venice.
The artist's luminescent skies, long perspectives, dramtic conteats of sunlight and shadow, and faithful rendering of architctural detail soon gained him an audience beyond the limits of Venice. The English in particular much admired his work and Canaletto spent nearly ten years working in London.
He turned to etching for a brief period. No more than31 prints are known to have been made..
Source: Bulletin, July-August 1972.
Exhibition History"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
"Allegories of Consciousness: Perfection in Printmaking Since the Renaissance," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"Italian Etchings of the 17th and 18th Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"City Views," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Published ReferencesDMAC Bulletin, July-August 1972, repro.
THE ETCHINGS OF CANALETTO by Jacob Kainen, Smithsonian Press, Washington, D. C., 1967, ref. and illus. no. 6: The Prato della Valle in Padua, with Church of S. Giustina. This print forms a continuous view with "Pra della Valle."
Exhibition History"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
"Allegories of Consciousness: Perfection in Printmaking Since the Renaissance," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"Italian Etchings of the 17th and 18th Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"City Views," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Published ReferencesDMAC Bulletin, July-August 1972, repro.
THE ETCHINGS OF CANALETTO by Jacob Kainen, Smithsonian Press, Washington, D. C., 1967, ref. and illus. no. 6: The Prato della Valle in Padua, with Church of S. Giustina. This print forms a continuous view with "Pra della Valle."
DimensionsFrame: 19 × 43 × 1 in. (48.3 × 109.2 × 2.5 cm)
Plate: 11 7/8 × 17 1/4 in. (30.2 × 43.8 cm)
Plate: 11 7/8 × 17 1/4 in. (30.2 × 43.8 cm)
Accession Number 1972.21
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
InscriptionsA. Canal f. (l,l plate); Sa. Giustina in pra della Vale (l,l plate); E 2 (l,r plate)
Catalogue raisonnéDe Vesme 8 ii/ii
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale)
ca. 1735-1740
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756