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Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto

The Doge Attends the Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta, 1763/1766

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series Title

The Twelve Festivals of the Doge

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44.8 x 57.2 cm (17 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.)

sheet: 49.3 x 69.1 cm (19 7/16 x 27 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Constable rev. Links 1989, no. 636, State iii/iv (under Canaletto Drawings)

Accession Number

1985.61.457

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Brustolon (artist) Italian, 1712 - 1796

Canaletto (artist after) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Antonius Canal pinxit.; in plate, below image, at right: Jo. Bap. Brustolon inc.; in plate, below image, across bottom: Die jovis postrema Bacchanaliorum Serenissimus Princeps e ducali Palatio conspicit populares ludos, perantiquae victoriae monumenta / Apud Theodorum Viero in via Mercatoria vulgo dicta dell'Orologlio Cum Privilegio Excellentissini Senatus.; in plate, at bottom right: No. 7.; verso: at right center, in graphite in later hand: ST 17283L177; at bottom center, in graphite in later hand: 887

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

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