A Venetian Courtyard, in the Procuratie Nuove, c. 1760

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 46 x 34 cm (18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.21.1

Artists / Makers

Canaletto (artist) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

Image Use

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Provenance

William Mayor [d. 1874], London; John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929] (Lugt 1507), London; Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sale Christie's London, 10 July 1936, no. 50); Duc de Talleyrand, Saint-Brice-sous-Foret; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Bethesa, MD, by 1974; given to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Heseltine, John Postle
Mayor, William
Oppenheimer, Henry
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.
Talleyrand, Marquis de

Exhibition History

1906: Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Schools of North Italy in the Collection of J. P. H., 1906, London, no. 5

1991: Art for the Nation, The National Gallery of Art, 1991, 96-97

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 433, no. 155 (repro. p. 433)(entry by Annalisa Prissa Torrini).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 83.

Bibliography

1906: Heseltine, John Postle. Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Schools of North Italy. Privately printed, London, 1906: no. 5

1929: Hadeln, Detlev, Baron von.The drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto. London, 1929: 15, pl.15.

1958: Morassi 1958, 26, no.56

1962: Constable, William George. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. 2 vols. Oxford, 1962: 11, 478, no. 623.

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washingon, 1974: 48-49, no.100.

1976: Constable and Links 1976, II: 523, no. 623.

1976: Russell, H. Dianne, "Venetian Drawings," Master Drawings 14.3 (1976): 310.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 96-97.