The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice
c. 1770/1800
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 48.2 x 83.6 cm (19 x 32 15/16 in.)
framed: 73 x 108 x 9.8 cm (28 3/4 x 42 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1958.7.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], Paris; gift 1958 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.
1973
Extended loan for use by The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1973-1980.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 64, as School of Guardi.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 56, repro., as School of Guardi.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 97.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 168, repro., as School of Guardi.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:244; 2:pl. 165.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 194, repro.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 143-145, repro. 144.
Wikidata ID
Q20178533