Padua from the East, with San Francesco and the Salone
Bernardo Bellotto
1721–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over constructed outline drawing in graphite or lead
Dimensions
7 1/2 x 10 11/16in. (19.1 x 27.1cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number
1972.118.242
Tags
Human FiguresAnimalsBuildingsLandscapes
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,...