Rialto Bridge, Venice
c. 1770/1800
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 19.1 x 30.3 cm (7 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.)
framed: 34.6 x 45.7 x 6 cm (13 5/8 x 18 x 2 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.1.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Eugene Glaenzer, Paris); purchased 1914 by (M. Knoedler & Co., London); sold 1924 to R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York;[1] gift 1949 to NGA.
[1] Glaenzer was a dealer active in Paris and New York during the early 1900s. All the provenance information is from the Knoedler records, provided by Martha Hepworth of the Getty Provenance Index (letter of 25 February 1992, NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1954-1955.
1967
The Art of Venice: An Exhibition of Five Works of Venetian Masters on extended loan from The Lending Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Tampa Bay Art Center, University of Tampa, Florida, 1967-1969, p. 11, repro.
1969
Inaugural Exhibition: European Paintings, The Art Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1969-1970, no cat.
Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1969.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 64, as The Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 56, repro., as The Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 97, as by Francesco Guardi.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 166, repro., as The Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:242; 2:pl. 163, as The Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 193, repro., as The Rialto Bridge by Francesco Guardi.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 141-143, repro. 142.
Wikidata ID
Q20178530