Landscape with the Pilgrim at Prayer, from Vedute
Canaletto (Italian, 1697-1768)
1735/44
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.9 × 20.7 cm (5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.); Plate: 14.2 × 20.9 cm (5 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 16.9 × 23.9 cm (6 11/16 × 9 7/16 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The most distinguished Italian vista painter of the eighteenth century, Canaletto gave up painting in the early 1740s, focusing entirely on drawing and etching.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
