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Canaletto

Ascension Day Festival at Venice, 1765/1766

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, tip of the brush with black wash, heightened with a few touches of white gouache (laid on thick eighteenth-century paper)

Dimensions

overall: 38.7 × 55.5 cm (15 1/4 × 21 7/8 in.)
support: 46.3 x 63 cm (18 1/4 x 24 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1963.15.5

Artists / Makers

Canaletto (artist) Venetian, 1697 - 1768

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Inscription

in later hand, upper left verso in graphite: Lot 211; lower center verso: 18; lower right verso: 5

Provenance

Lodovico Furlanetto, Venice; purchased 1787/1789 by Richard Colt Hoare [1758-1838], Stourhead, Wilshire; by descent to Henry Ainslie Hoare, Stourhead; (sale, Christie's, London, 2 June 1883, no. 31); bought by Knowles; (P&D Colnaghi, London); Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sold, Christie's, London, 10 July 1936, no. 44); (Bellesi, London); Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to the NGA

Associated Names

Bellesi, Guiseppe
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Furlanetto, Lodovico
Hoare, Henry Ainslie
Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Oppenheimer, Henry
Owen, Richard

Exhibition History

1911: Exhibition of Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1911, no. 74

1936: The Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Christie's, London, July 10, 1936, no. 44, Pl. 9

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 76.

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 242, 245, 440, no. 149 (repro. p. 242, color)(entry by Ruth Bromberg).

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 438, no. 160 (repro. p. 438)(entry by Annalisa Prissa Torrini).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 84.

2019: Canaletto and Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2019.

Bibliography

1822: Colt Hoare, Sir Richard. History of Modern Wiltshire. London, 1822: 75-76.

1929: Constable, William George. "Canaletto and Guardi." Old Master Drawings, 1929: 22, pl. 26.

1929: Hadeln, Detlev, Baron von.The drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto. London, 1929: 15.

1962: Constable, William George. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. 2 vols. Oxford, 1962: 635.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 162-163, fig. 310.

1974: Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washingon, 1974: 50, no. 104.

1975: Pignatti, Teresio. "Le feste Ducale. Canaletto, Brustolon, Guardi" Critica d'arte 21 (40), n.s., fasc. 144 (November-December 1975): 52-67.

1976: Constable and Links 1976: 530, no. 635.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:106-107; 2:pl. 73.

1982: Bettagno, Alesandro et al. Canaletto: Disegni-Dipinti-Incisioni. Venice, 1982: 51-52, no. 69.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 672, no. 1074, color repro.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 242, 245, 440, no. 149.

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 438-440.

1996: National Gallery Company Limited, "Pictures Cleaned and Restored in the Conservation Department of the National Gallery, October 1994- September 1995," National Gallery Technical Bulletin 17 (1996): 104

1996: Steward, James Christen, ed. The Mask of Venice. Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, 1996: fig. 1.

2001: Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 220, fig. 11.20.

2019: Barcham, William L. "Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo's Patronage of the Arts: Piazzetta, Pitteri, Pavona, Nazari, Joli, Canaletto, Brustolon, and Guardi..." Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte 43 (2019): 147 and 155, fig. 27.