The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo
| The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo | |
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| Artist | Canaletto |
| Year | c.1740 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 124.5 cm × 204.6 cm (49.0 in × 80.6 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo is a c.1740 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto.[1] [2] Portraying a veduta of his native Venice, it depicts a view along the Grand Canal with the dome of San Simeone Piccolo prominent on the left and the Scalzi on the right. In the foreground fisherman are at work, with a gondola carrying two female passengers about to collide with their boat. The view was radically altered in the nineteenth century to construct the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.[3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, as part of the bequest of Lord Farnborough in 1838.[4] A view of the same area but looking the opposite direction down the Canal by Canaletto's nephew and pupil Bernardo Bellotto is in the Wallace Collection.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Packer & Beddington p.138
- ^ Levey p.78
- ^ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/canaletto-venice-the-grand-canal-with-s-simeone-piccolo
- ^ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/canaletto-venice-the-grand-canal-with-s-simeone-piccolo
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t1.collection_list.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=2&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=0
Bibliography
[edit]- Levey, Michael. A Room-to-Room Guide to the National Gallery. National Gallery Publications, 1972.
- Packer, Leila & Beddington, Charles. Canaletto and Guardi: Views of Venice at the Wallace Collection. Batsford Books, 2025.
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