1932.329: A View of Roofs; verso: Landscape Sketch

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.329

People

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)

Title

A View of Roofs; verso: Landscape Sketch

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1740

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298583

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

Dimensions

actual: 18.8 x 22.2 cm (7 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, brown ink, in Canaletto's hand: piu largho
• watermark: Bow and arrow (Mongan-Sachs W. 26)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.329

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln and Campbell Dodgson, The Drawings of Antonio Canal Called Canaletto (London, England, 1929), p. 10
• Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 56
• "Exhibition of Eighteenth Century Italian Landscape Painting and its Influence in England", Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University, Yale University (New Haven, CT, 1940), vol. IX, no. 2, no. 12. repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 311, p. 158; vol. 2, repr. fig. 148
• Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 6, n.p.
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), no. 94, repr.
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 5
• Canaletto and Bellotto, exh. cat., Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA, 1960), no. 9
• Vittorio Moschini, Canaletto, A. Martello (Milan, Italy, 1963), pl. 184
• Jean Sutherland Boggs, "Canaletto in Canada", The Connoisseur (1964), vol. CLVII, p. 152, repr.
• William G. Constable, Canaletto, Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, 1964), no. 102, repr.
• Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, October 1969), pl. XXXIX
• Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto: Selected Drawings (University Park, PA, 1970), no. XXXIX, repr.
• XVIII Century Venice: Drawings from American Academic Collections: Paintings from the Seattle Art Museum, exh. cat., Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA, 1974), no. 2, repr.
• William G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1976), no. 665, repr. pl. 122
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 36, pp. 84-85, and p. 10, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 69, n.p., and p. 68, repr. color
• K. Baetjer and J. G. Links, Canaletto, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), no. 103, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")
• Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 49, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

• Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938
• Exhibition of Eighteenth Century Italian Landscape Painting and its Influence in England, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/18/1940 - 02/25/1940
• Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
• Scenic Painters and Draughtsmen of 18th Century Venice, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/22/1958 - 03/02/1958
• Canaletto & Bellotto, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 08/02/1960 - 08/31/1960
• Canaletto, Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, 10/16/1964 - 11/15/1964; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 12/04/1964 - 01/10/1965; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 01/29/1965 - 02/28/1965
• XVIII Century Venice: Drawings from American Academic Collections, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 09/22/1974 - 10/20/1974
• Canaletto, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/30/1989 - 01/21/1990
• Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

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