Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto / Imaginary View of Venice (undivided plate) / 1741

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Imaginary View of Venice (undivided plate)
1741
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Creator Name: Canaletto
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian, 1697-1768
Creator Name-CRT: Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Title: Imaginary View of Venice (undivided plate)
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1741
Creation End Date: 1741
Creation Date: 1741
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: etching
Dimensions: 11 13/16 x 17 1/8 in. (30 x 43.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1973.634
Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Venice in the eighteenth century was the site of an extraordinary flourishing of print production, which reached its apogee in the years 1740-45. It was in these very years that Canaletto, the great painter of views of Venice and also of England during his sojourn there, made approximately thirty etchings: thirteen large plates and seventeen smaller ones. The title plate to the series states that these are 'Views, some representing actual sites, others imaginary.' This is one of the imaginary views, reminiscent of Venice and the lagoon. For an unknown reason, Canaletto divided this plate down the middle, between the backs of the two central figures, relatively soon after it was made. Fewer than ten impressions are known from the undivided plate. The date, 1741 in Roman numerals on the wall at the left, is the only one on any of Canaletto's prints.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1973.634
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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