The Doge in the Bucintoro Leaving San Nicolò di Lido

1763/1766

Giovanni Battista Brustolon

Artist, Italian, 1712 - 1796

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.4 x 57 cm (17 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.88.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Constable rev. Links 1989, no. 635, State i/iv (under Canaletto Drawings)

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 243, 245, 433, no. 150 (repro. p. 243)(entry by Ruth Bromberg).

Bibliography

1989

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

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 150.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Antonius Canal pinxit.; lower right in plate: Jo. Bap. Brustolon inc.; across bottom in plate: Sacris in D. Nicolai Templo rite peractis, apertoque sibi solemni ritu mari, Sereniss. Princeps ...; lower right in plate: No. 6.

Wikidata ID

Q74038233

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