Portico with lantern
Maker
(artist)
1697-1768
(etcher)
1697-1768
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
Width: 43.1 cm
Accession Number
G.1933.HO.1.10
Mode of Acquisition
Henry Oppenheimer, bequest, 1933 (January)
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
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.
Provenance
Previous owner : Oppenheimer, Henry
Exhibition History
Canaletto, Pageant and Panorama, The Lightbox, Woking, 16/07/2022-13/11/2022
Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999
Canaletto's Etched Views of Venice and its Environs, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1991-09/06/1991 ...More
Canaletto - Etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/11/1974-01/12/1974 ...Less
Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999
Canaletto's Etched Views of Venice and its Environs, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1991-09/06/1991 ...More
Canaletto - Etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/11/1974-01/12/1974 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed : printed : lower centre & recto : : A. Canal f. V.
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