A Capriccio of Palaces and a Loggia Facing a Classical Bridge
c. 1765
Artist, Venetian, 1722 - 1780

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on two joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 29.6 x 47.2 cm (11 5/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1999.125.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1999, no. 96); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 96.
Bibliography
n.d.
Sotheby's London, 7 July 1999: 96.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in graphite: Canaletto; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 976; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: A633 / IV-V; sketch in brown ink of a pilaster
Watermarks
on main sheet abstracted lily with "A" below
Wikidata ID
Q64537367