# Canal in Venice

- By: Unidentified (Italian)
- Date: 18th century
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 3 1/16 x 4 5/16 in. (7.8 x 11.0 cm.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=24523)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5922d8b92d25740f45a38ebc1616abbe.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A sense of history guided John Gellatly and many collectors of his ear. Gellatly no doubt believed this painting to be a minor work by the Baroque landscapist Francesco Guardi. Its frame, made in the 1920s but inspired by earlier Venetian designs, underscores its age and character.