1932.330: A Panorama of a Village; verso: Sketch of a building

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.330

People

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

Title

A Panorama of a Village; verso: Sketch of a building

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1742

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298644

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Dimensions

14.2 × 39.2 cm (5 9/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto, left edge, brown ink: cornise piu alta.
• inscription: verso, graphite: Verso: graphite, crossed out: Ant. Canal FECIT / ANNO MDCXLII; rewritten, graphite: A / ANT. CANAL FECIT / ANNO MDCCXLII; lower right: 101 / 4; upside down: Berlin 190; [illegible]
• watermark: fleur-de-lis

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

1932.330

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), pp. 3, 5, 10
• Agnes Mongan, "Notes on Canaletto Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum", Old Master Drawings (1938), vol. XIII, pp. 34-36, pp. 34-36, pl. 39
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 307, pp. 154-156; vol. 2, repr. fig. 147
• Rodolfo Pallucchini and G. F. Guarnati, Le Acqueforti del Canaletto (Venice, Italy, 1945), pp. 22-24, figs. 16-17
• 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. 47
• Mary Pittaluga, Acquafortisti Veneziani del Settecento, Le Monnier (Florence, Italy, 1952), p. 73, note 7
• Cesare Brandi, Canaletto, Mondadori (Milan, Italy, 1960), p. 132, fig. 65
• Canaletto and Bellotto, exh. cat., Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA, 1960), no. 10
• Vittorio Moschini, Canaletto, A. Martello (Milan, Italy, 1963), fig. 173
• William G. Constable, Canaletto, Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, 1964), no. 91, repr.
• R. Bromberg, Canaletto's Etchings (New York, NY, 1974), p. 81, pl. IX
• William G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1976), vol. II, no. 695b, and under no. 377
• The William A. Gumberts Collection of Canaletto Etchings, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1979), p. 68, fig. 116
• Canaletto Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Queen's Gallery (London, England, 1980), p. 105
• Alessandro Bettagno, ed., Canaletto disegni--dipinti--incisioni, N. Pozza (Vicenza, Italy, 1982), under no. 32
• Andre Corboz, Canaletto: una Venezia imaginaria, exh. cat., Alfieri Electa (Milan, Italy, 1985), p. 665, repr. D21
• K. Baetjer and J. G. Links, Canaletto, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), no. 104b, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")
• Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, Canaletto: Il trionfo della veduta, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, 2005), cat. no. 39, repr. recto and verso (color)

Exhibition History

• 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
• Canaletto's Etchings, Paintings and Drawings, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 03/28/1979 - 05/20/1979
• Canaletto, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/30/1989 - 01/21/1990
• Canaletto: Il trionfo della veduta, Palazzo Giustiniani, 03/12/2005 - 06/19/2005

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