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Canaletto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
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Painting ID:: 5623
Entrance to the Grand Canal: from the West End of the Molo dd
1735-40
Oil on canvas, 114,5 x 153 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Painting ID:: 5624
The Brenta Canal at Padua dsf
1735-40
Oil on canvas, 62,5 x 109 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Painting ID:: 5625
Grand Canal: Looking South-West f
c. 1738
Oil on canvas, 124 x 204 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5626
Bacino di San Marco (St Mark s Basin)
1738-40
Oil on canvas, 125 x 204 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Painting ID:: 5627
The Grand Canal at the Salute Church d
1738-42
Oil on canvas, 121 x 151 cm
Private collection, Zurich
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Canaletto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
. Related Artists to Canaletto: | Currier and Ives | Merle, Hugues | Nikifor Krylov | J.M.W. Turner | Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy |
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