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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.331
People
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Title
Two Views of Waterfronts
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298590

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
22 × 29.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Flower with nine petals and two leaves (Mongan-Sachs W. 25)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, 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
1932.331
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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, pl. 59
  • Agnes Mongan, "Notes on Canaletto Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum", Old Master Drawings (1938), vol. XIII, pp. 34-36, pp. 34-36, pl. 37
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 309, pp. 156-57; vol. 2, repr. fig. 150
  • F. J. B. Watson, Canaletto, P. Elek (London, England and New York, NY, 1949), pp. 10 and 19, fig. 17
  • Terisio Pignatti, Il quaderno di disegni del Canaletto alle Gallerie di Venezia, Edizioni Daria Guarnati (Milan, Italy, 1958), vol. I, pp. 17 and 21, fig. 7
  • William G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1962), vol. II, no. 652b, repr.
  • Vittorio Moschini, Canaletto, A. Martello (Milan, Italy, 1963), p. 46, fig. 274
  • William G. Constable, Canaletto, Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, 1964), no. 121, repr.
  • Antonio Maranzi, "Canaletto, le maitre de la lumière diffuse", Vie des Arts (1965), no. 38, p. 29
  • Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, October 1969), text under plate LIX notations at back of book, repr. plate LIX
  • Van Deren Coke, The Painter and the Photograph from Delacroix to Warhol, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM, 1972), p.3
  • Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, Abaris Books (New York, 1978), pl. 200
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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