DAC Collection Artist Information

Canaletto, aka Antonio Canale, Giovanni Antonio Canale

Italian painter

Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Canaletto was born 18 October 1697 and died 20 April 1768. The most famous view-painter of the 18th century, his works are characteristically topographically correct with smooth, precise handling. His patrons were mostly English collectors.

Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115269.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.

Objects related to Canaletto, aka Antonio Canale, Giovanni Antonio Canale:

Canaletto	The Title Page: Views, some taken from nature, some invented… (Titre. Vedute), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Tower of Malghera (La Torre de Malghera), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Mestre, 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Padua, Prà Della Valle (Prà Della Valle à Padoue), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Portico with a Lantern (Le Portique à La Lanterne), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	House with the Inscription (La Maison à L'Inscription MDCCXLI), 1741	Etching
Canaletto	The House with the Six-Columned Peristyle (La Maison au Péristyle de Six Colonnes), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Tomb of a Bishop (Le Tombeau d’un Évêque), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	La "Libreria V" de Venise, 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Proclamation Stone in the Piazzetta (La Piera del Bando à Venise), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Market Place on the Ponte Realto (Marché sur la Piazzetta à Venise), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Prison, Venice (La Prison V à Venise), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Mountain Landscape (Le Paysage Alpestre avec Trois Ponts), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Landscape with an Equestrian Statue (Paysage avec une Statue Equestre), ca. 1741-1745	Etching
Canaletto	The Terrace (La Terrasse), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Former Chief Magistrates Palace, Venice (Le Procuratie Nuove et l’Église de Saint Géminien, à Venise), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Villa by the River (La Villa au de là d’une Rivière), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Pilgrim in Prayer (Le Pélerin en Priere), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Ruined Gateway (Les deux piliers en ruines), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	A Woman Drawing Water from a Well under an Arcade, 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	The Three Columns and a Statue by the Sea (Les Trois colonnes at la statue sur le bord de la mer), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Landscape with Ruins beside the Pyramid (Le pillier isolé or Paysage avec des Monuments en ruines), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Various Fragments of Sculpture (Divers fragments du sculpture), 18th century	Etching
Canaletto	Cart Crossing a Bridge (Le Char passant sur un Pont), 18th century	Etching

http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/art35419 is a persistent link to this page with no user-session information.

ULAN biographical content is displayed with permission of the Getty Research Institute. Some ULAN content in some DAC artist records has been lightly edited. Content from the Getty Research Institute is © 2017 The J. Paul Getty Trust. All rights reserved.

Information here was last updated on 5/25/2017. Some is from older cataloging. Most objects acquired through 12/17/2015 are represented; cataloging is in process for some acquired before, and many after, that date. We continue to add and update content. Please contact the DAC Registrar of Collections to suggest corrections with citations. Captions embedded in DAC images have basic information as of the time the digital image was made; details and updates appear on object pages.

Most objects are not on view in the DAC gallery, which presents three temporary exhibitions each year. We encourage Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff, as well as outside scholars, to contact the DAC Curator to arrange private viewings of selected works for teaching, study, and academic research. Online content created by the DAC and not identified as "Open Access" or "CC0" is © 1996-2017 Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 301 High St., Middletown, CT 06459-0487. Privacy Policy.

DAC Collection Artist Information

Objects related to Canaletto, aka Antonio Canale, Giovanni Antonio Canale:

Featured Image Groups