Canaletto
The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta
1763-66386 x 555 mm
Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite and red chalk heightened with white gouache
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Paul Mellon Fund
Related works
Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto
The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta
1763-66
The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta
1763-66
Francesco Guardi
The Doge of Venice Attending the Shrove Thursday Festivities in the Piazzetta
c. 1775
The Doge of Venice Attending the Shrove Thursday Festivities in the Piazzetta
c. 1775
Provenance
Lodovico Furnletto, Venice
Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838), Stourhead, Wiltshire
by decent to Henry Ainslie Hoare, Stourhead
sale, Christie's London, 2 June 1883, nr. 32
Rothschild Family, Mentmore
Eva, Countess of Rosebury
sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1974, nr. 10
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Gallery, London
Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Bethesda, MD
with John and Paul Herring & Co., New York
Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997), Vaduz and Munich
purchased 2007 by NGA
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19th Century
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The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni
19th Century
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The Campanile under Repair
1745
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Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo Carried into Piazza San Marco after His Election
1763-66
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