Christmas Eve Procession to San Giorgio Maggiore, 1779

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series Title

Vedute Principali di Venezia

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33.3 x 45.9 cm (13 1/8 x 18 1/16 in.)

sheet: 49.2 x 63 cm (19 3/8 x 24 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Constable rev. Links 1989, Vol. Brustolon, no. 3, State (c) 11 (before the number)

Accession Number

1994.60.8

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Brustolon (artist) Italian, 1712 - 1796

Giovanni Battista Moretti (artist after) Italian

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Jo. Bap. Moretti et Filii del. e Pinx.; lower right in plate: Jo. Bap. Brustoloni sculp.; across bottom in plate: Vesperi Diei Nativitatis Domini. Principe, Senatu comitante, auratis Naviliis Regio apparatu ad Ecclesiam S. Georgii Majoris proficiscente, Populus undequaque confluit. / Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto supra Pontem vulgo dictum dei Baretteri C.P.E.S.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: P8187

Provenance

(David Tunick Inc., New York); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, 1981; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 40.

Bibliography

1981: Italian Prints of the Eighteenth Century. David Tunick, New York (cat. 11), 1981: no: 12.

1989: Constable, W.G. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768.2nd ed. revised by J.G. Links. 2 vols. Oxford, 1989.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 40.