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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.325
People
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1697 - 1768 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Church of the Redentore
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1742
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298642

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
31.1 x 47.6 cm (12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto: collector's mark, bottom left. Verso, graphite: Chiesa del Redentore del Palladio
    When seen through direct light, the inscription "Paladio" in black ink is visible on the verso of the original drawing sheet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Rogers, (his mark, L.624); William Cotton; Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932, inv. no. 1932.325

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.325
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 313, pp. 158-159, vol. II, fig. 153, repr.
  • Karl T. Parker, The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Phaidon Press (Oxford, England, 1948), p. 35
  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 6
  • Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Drawing, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1950), cat. no. 69
  • "The Practice of Drawing" [checklist for exhibition], Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar (Worcester, MA, December 1951), vol. XVII
  • W.R. Rearick, "Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings at Wellesley College", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (Spring 1960), vols. XIII-XIV, p. 293
  • William G. Constable, Canaletto, Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, 1964), cat. no. 96
  • Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, October 1969), pl. LVII, repr.
  • Eighteeth Century Venetian Drawings from American Academic Collections, exh. cat., Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA, 1974), cat. no. 3
  • H. Diane Russell, "Venetian Drawings", Master Drawings (Autumn 1976), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 309-312, p. 311
  • Old Master Paintings, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, July 6, 1988), under cat. no. 53
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 (as "Cartella III")
  • Ana Sverko, Designs of the Venetian Neoclassical Architect Giannantonio Selva in Dalmatia (Giannantonio Selva. Dalmatinski Projekti Venecijanskoga Klasicistickog Arhitekta), Institut za Povijest Umjetnosti (Zagreb, 2013), p. 21, fig. 5, repr.
  • The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection; Vol. 1, Important Pictures and Decorative Arts, auct. cat. (October 26, 2022), under no. 38
  • Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, July 3, 2024), p. 93, repr. as fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
  • The Diamond Jubilee, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 11/04/1950 - 02/11/1951
  • The Practice of Drawing, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 11/15/1951 - 01/06/1952
  • 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
  • Landmarks of World Art and Architecture, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/09/2015 - 11/19/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/11/2022 - 11/07/2022

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