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Canaletto

The House with the Inscription [left], 1741

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series Title

Vedute [Vesme 1-32]

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bromberg 1993, no. 13, only state

Accession Number

1985.64.149.a

Artists / Makers

Canaletto (artist) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

inverted A

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.

1945: 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.

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