There was an issue while attempting to download the image. Please try again later. If the problem persists, kindly contact us at gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk for further assistance.
You are permitted to reuse this image under a CC
BY-NC 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
This license requires that users give appropriate credit. You are permitted to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for non-commercial purposes only.
BY: Credit must be given to the creator.
NC:Only non-commercial use of the work is permitted.
Non-commercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
Copyright status:'No Known Copyright Restrictions'
Can I share this work? Yes
Can I remix this work? Yes
Do I need to credit The Courtauld? Yes
Please follow this format to credit the work:
Creator, title, date, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
[unless otherwise specified in the object record].
Image courtesy The Courtauld.
Can I use this work commercially? No, unless it is used in an academic project or publication with a print run of less than 3000 copies.
PLEASE SHARE WITH US HOW YOU PLAN TO USE THIS IMAGE
Please select an option:
LICENSING A HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE
For information about obtaining a license and a higher-resolution image for use not listed above please visit The Courtauld Copyright Policy
Piazza San Giacomo di Rialto
Maker
(artist)
1697-1768
1697-1768
Title
Piazza San Giacomo di Rialto
Date of Production
1760 - 1768
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink and grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, executed using a ruler and compass; the lower edge with inscriptions added on a separate strip of the (seemingly same) paper and joined on the verso
Dimensions
Height: 31.9 cm
Width: 43.3 cm
Width: 43.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.132
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
belfries
Label Text
From 2023 display La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice:
The little square in front of the church of San Giacomo di Rialto was the centre of Venice’s banking district. Canaletto painted and drew the picturesque location several times during his career; the style and technique of this work suggest a date in the late 1760s. However, the artist based the composition on earlier sketches. This is revealed by the design of the bell tower, shown here without the alterations carried out in 1747.
A myriad of busy macchiette (tiny, quickly sketched figures) populates this spirited view, revealing Canaletto’s ability to capture daily life in Venice as if in a snapshot. At the side of the church, a group of workmen assemble wooden scaffolding, while under the porticoes at right, and on the steps of the Rialto Bridge in the background, business continues unabated.
The little square in front of the church of San Giacomo di Rialto was the centre of Venice’s banking district. Canaletto painted and drew the picturesque location several times during his career; the style and technique of this work suggest a date in the late 1760s. However, the artist based the composition on earlier sketches. This is revealed by the design of the bell tower, shown here without the alterations carried out in 1747.
A myriad of busy macchiette (tiny, quickly sketched figures) populates this spirited view, revealing Canaletto’s ability to capture daily life in Venice as if in a snapshot. At the side of the church, a group of workmen assemble wooden scaffolding, while under the porticoes at right, and on the steps of the Rialto Bridge in the background, business continues unabated.
Provenance
Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran Marquis de Lagoy, Aix-en-Provence (1764-1829), L.1710 (lower right); possibly purchased from him by Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853), 1820, and purchased from him by Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426 (verso) [Lugt under marque 1710 records that in 1820, Woodburn purchased 138 drawings from de Lagoy, and promptly sold most of them on his return to Dimsdale]; Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer (Munich and Amsterdam), by 1931 [when lent to Böhler exhibition]; by whom consigned to sale, Gilhofer and Ranschburg (Lucerne), 28 June 1934, lot 66 (repr.); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2023-11/02/2024
Drawings Gallery Display - Reading Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/01/2017-04/06/2017
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983 ...More
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/07/1981-26/01/1982
Ausstellung altvenezianischer malerei, Julius Böhler, Munich, 1931 ...Less
Drawings Gallery Display - Reading Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/01/2017-04/06/2017
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983 ...More
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/07/1981-26/01/1982
Ausstellung altvenezianischer malerei, Julius Böhler, Munich, 1931 ...Less
Literature
Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2012
p. 58 under lot 51
Canaletto, Guardi : les deux maîtres de Venise, Musée Jacquemart-André, Sept. 14, 2012-Jan. 14, 2013 Brussels 2012
p. 46
Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 170
ill. on p. 171 ...More
Laskin, Myron and Michael Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. European and American Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts 1300-1800, Ottawa 1987
pp. 52-54 under no. 3693
in 1957 edition is on p. 7 under no. 3693, according to Seilern
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 64
ill. on p. 79
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), Courtauld Gallery, London, 1981-1982
cat. no. 130
ill. on p. 93
Canaletto. Disegni, Dipinti, Incisioni, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1982
p. 40 under no. 19 and p. 101 under no. 169
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 132
I Vedutisti Veneziani del Settecento, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 10 June - 15 October 1967
p. 108 under no. 47
Constable, W.G., Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, Oxford 1962
vol. I, p. 167; vol. II, p. 314 under no. 297, p. 315 under no. 298 and pp. 473-74, no. 611
ill.
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 132
pl. XCII
dated c. 1760-68
De Venetiaanse Meesters, Amsterdam, July-October 1953
p. 26 under no. 23
Gutekunst and Klipstein, sale catalogue of Delacre collection, 21-22 June 1949
p. 57 under lot 557
Parker, K.T., The drawings of Antonio Canaletto, in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Oxford and London, 1948
p. 20 note 28
Hadeln, Detlev Baron von, Die Zeichnungen von Antonio Canal, genannt Canaletto, Vienna 1930
p. 9, or pp. 23, 28?
pl. 51
Seilern gave pp. as 23, 28, Constable-Links gave as p. 9 ...Less
p. 58 under lot 51
Canaletto, Guardi : les deux maîtres de Venise, Musée Jacquemart-André, Sept. 14, 2012-Jan. 14, 2013 Brussels 2012
p. 46
Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 170
ill. on p. 171 ...More
Laskin, Myron and Michael Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. European and American Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts 1300-1800, Ottawa 1987
pp. 52-54 under no. 3693
in 1957 edition is on p. 7 under no. 3693, according to Seilern
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 64
ill. on p. 79
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), Courtauld Gallery, London, 1981-1982
cat. no. 130
ill. on p. 93
Canaletto. Disegni, Dipinti, Incisioni, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1982
p. 40 under no. 19 and p. 101 under no. 169
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 132
I Vedutisti Veneziani del Settecento, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 10 June - 15 October 1967
p. 108 under no. 47
Constable, W.G., Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, Oxford 1962
vol. I, p. 167; vol. II, p. 314 under no. 297, p. 315 under no. 298 and pp. 473-74, no. 611
ill.
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 132
pl. XCII
dated c. 1760-68
De Venetiaanse Meesters, Amsterdam, July-October 1953
p. 26 under no. 23
Gutekunst and Klipstein, sale catalogue of Delacre collection, 21-22 June 1949
p. 57 under lot 557
Parker, K.T., The drawings of Antonio Canaletto, in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Oxford and London, 1948
p. 20 note 28
Hadeln, Detlev Baron von, Die Zeichnungen von Antonio Canal, genannt Canaletto, Vienna 1930
p. 9, or pp. 23, 28?
pl. 51
Seilern gave pp. as 23, 28, Constable-Links gave as p. 9 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran marquis de Lagoy (L.1710). Verso: lower left corner (under the join of the sheets), stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).
Inscription: Recto, on separate strip added to lower edge of drawing: lower left, brown ink, signed (though see notes on signature): “Antonio Canal del.”; lower edge (separate strip of paper), brown ink, artist’s hand: “Piazza di S. Giaccomo di Rialto in Venezia, con parte del Famoso Ponte in distanza, Versso S. Bartolm:eo”. Verso: lower centre, graphite: “133”; lower left corner, graphite, erased and difficult to see: “60” [?]; lower centre, graphite: “V”; lower right corner, graphite: “16”.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran marquis de Lagoy (L.1710). Verso: lower left corner (under the join of the sheets), stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).
Inscription: Recto, on separate strip added to lower edge of drawing: lower left, brown ink, signed (though see notes on signature): “Antonio Canal del.”; lower edge (separate strip of paper), brown ink, artist’s hand: “Piazza di S. Giaccomo di Rialto in Venezia, con parte del Famoso Ponte in distanza, Versso S. Bartolm:eo”. Verso: lower centre, graphite: “133”; lower left corner, graphite, erased and difficult to see: “60” [?]; lower centre, graphite: “V”; lower right corner, graphite: “16”.
Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.
____________________________
