Canaletto

The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta

Canaletto

The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta

1763-66
386 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

Francesco Guardi
The Doge of Venice Attending the Shrove Thursday Festivities in the Piazzetta
c. 1775

Literature

Peter Björn Kerber, Eyewitness views, Los Angeles, 2017, fig. 18

Exhibitions

2017 Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Nr. 10

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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 2007.111.55

Other works by Canaletto

San Nicolò di Castello, Venice
19th Century

At the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice
1722/23

The Campanile under Repair
1745

Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo Carried into Piazza San Marco after His Election
1763-66

Venice: the Grand Canal from the Palazzo Dolfin-Manin to the Rialto Bridge