CANALETTO
(b. 1697, Venezia, d. 1768, Venezia)

Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge

1723-24
Oil on canvas, 144 x 207 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

The painting is part of a series of four vedute (now two are in the Thyssen collection and two in the Museo del Settecento in Venice). The four paintings reveals the influence of Marco Ricci.




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