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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.
1971
Catalogo completo delle incisioni di Giovanni Antonio Canal detto il Canaletto. Salamon, Harry, ed. Milano, Salamon e Agustoni, 1971, p. 20, cat. no. 13, repr.
1979
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 12 (1977), 1979, New Acquisitions (Catalogue). pp. 24-25, repr.
1982
Canaletto: disegni, dipinti, incisioni. Bettagno, Alessandro, ed. Vicenza, N. Pozza, 1982, p. 97, cat. no. 141, repr.
1985
Corboz, André. Canaletto: una Venezia immaginaria. t. 2, Milano, Alfieri Electa, 1985, p. 700, cat. no. 16, repr.
1993
Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings. Rev. and enlarged ed., San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993 (1st ed., London/ Paris, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974), pp. 11, 104-107, cat. nos. 15-17, repr.
2008
Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Ristampa riveduta e corretta, Venezia, Istitute veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2008, pp. 252-253, cat. no. 14, tav. 12, 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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