Ale Porte del Dolo

c. 1735/1746

Canaletto

Associated Names
Canaletto

Artist, Venetian, 1697 - 1768

The image shows a canal or waterway with boats docked along the edge. A detailed boat with people is closest to the viewer. Behind the boats are large multi-story buildings lining the water's edge. A tall steeple rises above the buildings on the horizon. The sky is cloudless with textured engravings. The monochrome composition consists of etched lines in black and gray. Trees are interspersed with the buildings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Accession Number

    1941.1.175

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bromberg 1993, no. 5, state ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

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.

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, no. 5, ii/iii.

1993

  • Bromberg, Ruth. Canaletto's etchings: revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, no. 5, ii/iii.

2002

  • Montecuccoli degli Erri, Federico. Canaletto incisore. Venice: Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2002, no. 5.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: A. Canal f.; lower center in plate: Ale Porte del Dolo

Wikidata ID

Q64954186

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