The Newly Elected Doge Presented to the People in San Marco

1763/1766

Giovanni Battista Brustolon

Artist, Italian, 1712 - 1796

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, David K.E. Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.7 x 56.6 cm (17 5/8 x 22 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 x 68 cm (18 13/16 x 26 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.451

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Constable rev. Links 1989, no. 630, State iii/iv (under Canaletto Drawings)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Quattrifolio, Milan); Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • From La Serenissima to the Eternal City: The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome, The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989

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

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no. 25

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Antonius Canal pinxit.; lower right in plate: Jo. Bap. Brustolon inc.; across bottom in plate: Serenissimus Venetiarum Dux, recens renuntiatus, a Seniori ex XLI.electoribus in Ducali Basilica ...; lower right in plate: No. 1.

Watermarks

Coat of Arms

Wikidata ID

Q75122884


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