The House with the Inscription [left]

1741

Canaletto

Artist, Venetian, 1697 - 1768

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30 x 21.7 cm (11 13/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 45.2 x 64.3 cm (17 13/16 x 25 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.149.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bromberg 1993, no. 13, only state

Associated Artworks

The House with the Peristyle [right]

Canaletto

1741

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.

1945

  • Pallucchini, Rodolpho and Guarnati, G.F.. Le acqueforti del Canaletto. Venice: Edizioni Daria Guarnati, 1945, no. 12a.

  • Palluchini & Guarnati 1945, 12b.

1974

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: a catalogue and study illustrating and describing the known states, including those hitherto unrecorded. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1974:14

1993

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, no. 13, only.

2002

  • Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002, no. 12.

Inscriptions

center left in plate on house facade: MDCCXLI.A.C.

Markings

inverted A

Watermarks

Coat of arms (top section of Bromberg 12)

Wikidata ID

Q74070614

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