A Capriccio of Palaces and a Loggia Facing a Classical Bridge, c. 1765

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over graphite on two joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 29.6 x 47.2 cm (11 5/8 x 18 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1999.125.1

Artists / Makers

Bernardo Bellotto (artist) Venetian, 1722 - 1780

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: Canaletto; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 976; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: A633 / IV-V; sketch in brown ink of a pilaster

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1999, no. 96); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 96.

Bibliography

n.d.: Sotheby's London, 7 July 1999: 96.