The Doge Crowned on the Scala dei Giganti of the Ducal Palace, 1763/1766

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series Title

The Twelve Festivals of the Doge

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.3 x 56.1 cm (17 7/16 x 22 1/16 in.)

sheet: 50.2 x 68.1 cm (19 3/4 x 26 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Constable rev. Links 1989, no. 632, State iii/iv (under Canaletto Drawings)

Accession Number

1985.61.453

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Brustolon (artist) Italian, 1712 - 1796

Canaletto (artist after) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Antonius Canal pinxit.; lower right in plate: Jo. Bap. Brustolon inc.; across bottom in plate: Expleto a Serenissimo DUCE in gestatoria sede Magnae Divi Marci plateae circuitu supra gigantum scalam ...; lower right in plate: No. 3.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

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