Ascension Day Festival at Venice
Canaletto
1765/1766
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.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1963.15.5
About the Artist
Canaletto · 1697–1768
The most famous view-painter of the 18th century, Canaletto's works are characteristically topographically correct with smooth, precise handling. His patrons were primarily English collectors.