View of the Old Fish Market in Venice

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View of the Old Fish Market in Venice

c. 1720-1730

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian (active Venice, Rome, and England), 1697–1768)

Canaletto's views of Venice are legendary, as he was one of the primary view painters in Europe in the eighteenth century, and Venice was a perennially popular subject. This free sketch was presumably drawn on location from one of the banks of the Grand Canal looking west, showing a bit of the Piazzetta San Marco, the Libreria Sansoviniana, and, in the distance, the dome of the church of Santa Maria della Salute.

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Object Details

Title:

View of the Old Fish Market in Venice

Date:

c. 1720-1730

Artist:

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian (active Venice, Rome, and England), 1697–1768)

Medium:

Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite, ruled in graphite, on cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 5/8 inches (18.6 x 27 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Matthew Carey Lea bequest of 1898 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-114

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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