Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) is celebrated for his precise views of Venice and the lagoon, painted in oil and also issued as etched suites of vedute. His work in this archive moves between real topography and capriccio, from Mestre and Dolo to imaginary Venice and Padua, alongside a title page for the "Views" series. The collection gathers 33 sheets, chiefly oil on canvas and etchings, with pen and brown ink and gray wash among the drawings, dated 1697–1763 and including impressions up to that later date.

33 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon

· Oil on canvas

Lagoon Capriccio

1697–1768 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of lead or graphite (recto). Squared in lead or graphite. Faint traces of a constructed outline drawing of an architectural scene, in lead or graphite; faint traces of a constructed outline drawing of buildings along a Venetian canal in lead or graphite (verso)

Man Smoking a Pipe (recto); Standing Man and Two Studies of His Head (verso)

1697–1768 · Pen and brown ink, over traces of lead or graphite (recto); vertical ruled line in lead or graphite at center, standing men and study of profile head in pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite or lead; study of head in graphite (verso)

Fanciful Landscape (Landscape with Villa Building and Equestrian Monument)

1697–1768 · Pen and brown ink

Woman drawing water from a well beneath an arcade at left, with a landscape at right

1717–68 · Etching

Capriccio with a Roman Triumphal Arch

1720–30 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of leadpoint or graphite

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge

1730s · Oil on canvas

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice

1730s · Oil on canvas

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right

1730s · Oil on canvas

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice

1730s · Oil on canvas

View of Mestre, an inn at left and other various buildings lining the canal, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1735–46 · Etching; first state of two

The Locks at Dolo

1735–46 · Etching; second state of three

A three-arched portico with an open lantern hanging at center, a triumphal arch and ruins of a classical temple in the background, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1735–46 · Etching; second state of three

Imaginary View of Padua, with a campanile and domed church at left, a column surmounted by a statue of a saint at center, and a cottage and water-mill at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1735–46 · Etching; second state of three

Title page with a large wall of a classical ruin, with a figure seated at right pointing to the dedication, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1735–46 · Etching; second state of two

Title plate of "Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate"

1735–46 · Etching; second state of two

The market on the Molo in Venice

1735–46 · Etching

The façade of the Palazzo Ducale

1735–46 · Etching

Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Nuove on the left and the church of San Geminiano in the background

1735–46 · Etching

Prà della Valle: the right half of the square of Prà della Valle in Padua, with the Colleggio Universitario at right

1735–46 · Etching; first state of two (Bromberg)

Al Dolo: the church of Dolo, dedicated to San Rocco, on the bank of the Brenta, facing the villa Zanon-Bon

1735–46 · Etching; third state of three (Bromberg)

Le porte del Dolo: the oval basin of the locks at Dolo, with a barge moored to the quay

1735–46 · Etching; third state of three (Bromberg)

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1741 · Etching; undivided plate, only state

Warwick Castle

1748 · Oil on canvas

Warwick Castle: The East Front

1752 · Pen and brown ink, gray wash

Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate

18th century

A Venetian Interior, with a Young Man Seated by the Fire

after 1717 · Pen and black ink, gray wash

Piazza San Marco from the Southwest Corner, with the Procuratie Nuove on the Right

ca. 1724–80 · Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash

A Magnificent Pavilion by the Lagoon (recto); The Grand Canal, with the Rialto Bridge from the South (verso)

ca. 1727–29 · Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite

Padua: The River Bacchiglione and the Porta Portello

ca. 1750–60 · Pen and brown ink, gray wash

Interior of the Basilica of San Marco, Showing the Crossing and the Choir

ca. 1763–68 · Pen and brown ink over black chalk

Imaginary View with a Tomb by the Lagoon

early 1740s · Oil on canvas

Piazza San Marco

late 1720s · Oil on canvas