A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Catalogue
- Year
- 1717
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 × 26 5/8 in. (50.8 × 67.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Canaletto
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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Ascension Day Festival at Venice
1765 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, tip of the brush with black wash, heightened with a few touches of white gouache (laid on thick eighteenth-century paper)
The "Giovedì Grasso" Festival before the Ducal Palace in Venice
1763 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, tip of the brush with black wash, heightened with touches of white gouache (laid on thick eighteenth-century mount)
A Venetian Courtyard, in the Procuratie Nuove
1760 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite on laid paper
Piazza San Marco, Venice, Seen from the South-west
1755 · pen on graphite (mineral), ink, chalk, paper
English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace
1754 · oil on canvas
English Landscape Capriccio with a Column
1754 · oil on canvas
Record
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- Canaletto
- Year
- 1717
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 × 26 5/8 in. (50.8 × 67.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1717-156413
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified