Vue des Remparts de Sonnenstein (View of the Ramparts of Sonnenstein)
Bernardo Bellotto
1701 to 1725
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 42.1 x 44.8 cm (16 9/16 x 17 5/8 in.) sheet: 42.5 x 45.5 cm (16 3/4 x 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David P. Tunick
Accession Number
2009.127.2
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,...