Portico with lantern

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker

(artist)
1697-1768
(etcher)
1697-1768

Title

Portico with lantern

Date of Production

(circa) 1741 - 1744

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 29.8 cm
Width: 43.1 cm

Object Number

G.1933.HO.1.10

Mode of Acquisition

Henry Oppenheimer, bequest, 1933 (January)

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Related Works (1)

Views of Venice, surrounding towns and imaginary landscapes (set) G.1933.HO.1
Views of Venice, surrounding towns and imaginary landscapes (set)

Label Text

One of the 'invented' views in Canaletto's series of etchings, Views of Venice, this image combines the ruins of ancient buildings with contemporary Venetian houses, viewed from beneath a Roman portico. The print displays Canaletto's impressive control of the etched line, from the wide, heavily-bitten lines describing the rough earth in the foreground, to the fine wispy tendrils describing the smoke hazily merging into the sky from the chimney of the building in the centre.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : printed : lower centre & recto : : A. Canal f. V.

Provenance

Previous owner : Oppenheimer, Henry

Exhibition History

Canaletto, Pageant and Panorama, The Lightbox, Woking, 16/07/2022-13/11/2022
Piranesi, Canaletto, Tiepolo - Etchings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999
Canaletto's Etched Views of Venice and its Environs, Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1991-09/06/1991
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Canaletto - Etchings, Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/11/1974-01/12/1974
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