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Currently not on display

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Venice, 1697 - Venice, 1768

View of a City with the Tomb of a Bishop

Materials and Techniques etching
Size(cm) 30.0 x 30.2
Inscriptions Signed: A. Canal f. V.
Standard ref. De Vesme 14; Constable 13b; Bromberg 16
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1977-0004

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1978.

Exhibition History

2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_52 | T2_55

Bibliography

1945
Pallucchini, Rodolfo; Guarnati, G. F. Le Acqueforti del Canaletto. Venice, 1945, no. 13b.
1967
Constable, W. G. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768. vol. 2, Oxford, 1962, p. 598, no. 13b, pl. 177.
1979
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 12 (1977), 1979, New Acquisitions (Catalogue). pp. 24-25, repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 91, 180, cat. no. Y2_52 | T2_55, col. repr.

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