We look slightly down onto a port-side town along a canal, with a church across the water from us in this horizontal landscape painting. A bright blue sky with billowing white, pink, and gray clouds fills the top two-thirds of the painting. Below, a three-masted ship with all but one sail furled is surrounded by a couple dozen black long, low boats, gondolas, and one or two other sailboats. People stand and walk mostly in pairs and trios along the stone walkway under us, which extends into the distance to our right. The women all wear long dresses and most of the men wear suits with…
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Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice

Canaletto (Venetian, 1697 - 1768)

1742/1744

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 114.5 x 153.5 cm (45 1/16 x 60 7/16 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Barbara Hutton
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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