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Le Procuratie Niove e S. Ziminian, from Vedute
Canaletto (Italian, 1697-1768)
1735/44
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.3 × 20.9 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 21.1 cm (5 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 16.9 × 23.3 cm (6 11/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This etching shows a view of the Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Nuove on the left, San Geminiano in the center background, and the Campanile of San Moise beyond. Numerous figures and stalls fill the piazza. This and thirty four other etchings by Canaletto were probably commissioned and financed by Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
