The Entrance to the Grand Canal, with the Dogana da Mar and Santa Maria della Salute on the Left
ca. 1736–37
Medium
Pen and brown ink, gray wash
Dimensions
10 x 16 15/16 in. (25.4 x 43 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.304
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the shimmering world of 18th-century Venice with Bellotto's *The Entrance to the Grand Canal with the Dogana da and Santa Maria della Salute the Left* (ca. 1736–37). This exquisite drawing captures the iconic waterway's mouth, flanked by the stately Dogana da Mar customs house and the dramatic Baroque dome of Santa Maria della Salute Bellotto, nephew and pupil of the famed vedutista Canaletto, honed his mastery of precise, topographical cityscapes here, rendering Venice's architectural splendor with remarkable fidelity. Executed in pen and brown ink with gray wash on paper (10 x 16 ...
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,...