Procession on Corpus Christi Day in the Piazza 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

  • Dimensions

    plate: 43 x 55.8 cm (16 15/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.5 x 67.5 cm (19 1/8 x 26 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.459

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Constable rev. Links 1989, no. 638, 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: Solemnis per plateam D. Marci processio in die Corporis Christi, ...; lower right in plate: No. 9.

Watermarks

Crescent

Wikidata ID

Q75408014


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