The "Giovedì Grasso" Festival before the Ducal Palace in 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 touches of white gouache (laid on thick eighteenth-century mount)
Dimensions
sheet: 38.6 x 55.5 cm (15 3/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2007.111.55
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.