1932.327: Circular Church

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.327

People

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

Title

Circular Church

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1750

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298729

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and gray wash on white antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.7 × 32.9 cm (7 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, brown ink: reçu d' Hyppolite Poderasski le 27 de Juin 1816

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hyppolite Poderasski. 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

1932.327

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 1, cat. no. 310, pp. 157-58; vol. 2, repr. fig. 151
• Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 77
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 14
• Charles P. Parkhurst, Exhibition of Master Drawings of the 18th Century in France and Italy, exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, 1951), cat. no. 6
• Favourite Italian and Spanish Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries, exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1951), no. 34
• Venice Observed, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1956), no. 8
• James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 68 and 150
• The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1959), no. 209, repr. p. 61
• Vittorio Moschini, Canaletto, A. Martello (Milan, Italy, 1963), pl. 62
• Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 54
• Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
• Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, October 1969), text under heading LVIII, pl. LVIII
• Lionello Puppi, L'Opera Completa del Canaletto (Milan, Italy, 1969), p. 116, under cat. no. 298
• Martin Davies, European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1974), pp. 326-7
• William G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1976), no. 830, pl. 157; also under no. 508
• [Untitled review], Drawing (November 1979 - December 1979), vol. I, no. 4, repr. p. 90
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 70, n.p., pl. 70, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 37, pp. 86-87, and pp. 10-11, repr.
• Andre Corboz, Canaletto: una Venezia imaginaria, exh. cat., Alfieri Electa (Milan, Italy, 1985), no. D128, repr.
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 279, p. 238, repr.
• Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, July 6, 1987 - July 7, 1987), under cat. no. 49
• 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. 70, n.p., p. 69, repr. color
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 24, p. 27
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")
• Charles Beddington, Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, CT, 2006), under no. 63, fig. 63.1
• Mechthild Haas, Remember Venice!: Bernardo Bellotto Zeichnet, exh. cat., Hessisches Landesmuseum and Sandstein Verlag (Darmstadt, 2022), p. 142, repr.

Exhibition History

• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Exhibition of Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 01/01/1951 - 12/31/1951
• Exhibition of Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 01/01/1951 - 01/31/1951
• Venice Observed, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/08/1956 - 06/16/1956
• The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/25/1959 - 06/14/1959
• Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
• Piranesi and Architectural Fantasy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/31/2001 - 09/19/2001
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/11/2022 - 11/07/2022

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