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Piazza San Marco, Venice Piazza San Marco, Venice

c. 1732-33/Oil on canvas

61.0 x 96.5 cm

On loan

400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum –

Exhibition period:Saturday April 12Sunday June 8, 2025

Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)

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SUMMARY

ARTIST

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

1697-1768

List of artworks by the same artist

INFORMATION

Exhibiton history

Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, June 8, 2025

400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)

Saturday, October 12 - Saturday, December 28, 2024

Canaletto and the Splendour of Venice Sompo Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)

Friday, July 26 - Monday, September 23, 2024

400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)

Saturday, September 17 - Sunday, November 20, 2022

400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan)

Saturday, July 16 - Sunday, September 4, 2022

Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art (Kumamoto, Japan)

Saturday, March 19 - Sunday, May 8, 2022

Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan)

Saturday, October 23 - Sunday, December 26, 2021

The 400 Years of Western Painting: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan)

Friday, July 9 - Sunday, August 29, 2021

400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)

Tuesday, December 15 - Sunday, January 31, 2021

How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)

Saturday, September 12 - Tuesday, November 3, 2020

400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan)

Wednesday, July 22 - Sunday, September 6, 2020

400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan)

Thursday, February 20 - Sunday, April 12, 2020

How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan)

Tuesday, September 3 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan)

Saturday, April 29 - Sunday, June 25, 2017

The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan)

Saturday, November 14 - Sunday, January 31, 2016

Travels and Art: Discovery, Wonder and Dreams The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Saitama, Japan)

Saturday, June 2 - Sunday, July 29, 2001

Pittura veneziana del Settecento Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan)

Saturday, March 24 - Sunday, May 27, 2001

Pittura veneziana del Settecento The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

Sunday, October 1 - Sunday, December 3, 2000

Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)

Friday, October 16 - Thursday, November 5, 1992

Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China)

Saturday, November 3 - Sunday, December 2, 1990

Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea)

Saturday, September 22 - Sunday, October 21, 1990

Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)

Origin of collections

Provenance: From the Collection of Sir Henry Samuel, Politician, London Thence by descent to Captain Cecil Samuel, London, given by this family as a charitable donation to Gainsborough House Museum, Suffolk Sold by them for Museum Funding in 1989

Reference

Literature: W.G Constable, Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1962, Ⅱ, p.204, no.53 W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto 1967-1768, Oxford 1976, Ⅱ, pp208-209, no.53 D. Bindman and L. Puppi, L’opera completa del Canaletto, 1968, p.102, no.133B TheCleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings: Part Three: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, Cleveland 1982, pp.316-318, no.141, figs.141 and 141a A. Corboz, Canaletto. Una Venezia Immaginaria, 1985, Ⅱ, p.634, p.235 W.G Constable and J.G. Links, Canaletto Giovanni Canal,1967-1768, second édition revised by J.G. Links. Reprinted with spplement, 1989, Ⅱ, pp.208-209, no.53

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