A Capriccio of Palaces and a Loggia Facing a Classical Bridge
Bernardo Bellotto
c. 1765
Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on two joined sheets of laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 29.6 x 47.2 cm (11 5/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William B. O'Neal Fund
Accession Number
1999.125.1
About the Artist
Bernardo Bellotto · 1722–1780
Bernardo Bellotto (1722–1780) was an Italian painter of exceptional gifts who carried the art of the veduta — the precisely observed topographical view — from Venice across the courts of northern Europe, leaving behind some of the most detailed and haunting urban panoramas in the history of Western painting. Born in Venice, he was the nephew and pupil of the great vedutista Giovanni Antonio Canal,...