The Fortress of Königstein: Courtyard with the Magdalenenburg
1756-1758
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 48.3 x 78.7 cm (19 x 31 in.) framed: 63.18 x 94.3 x 6.03 cm (24 7/8 x 37 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Donated by Lolo Sarnoff in memory of her grandfather, Louis Koch
Accession Number
1996.64.1
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,...