id: 111702 accession number: 1930.23 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.23 updated: 2024-04-04 11:13:06.240000 Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon, c. 1750–55. Antonio Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and black wash over traces of graphite (?); framing lines in pen and brown and black ink; sheet: 26.9 x 42.1 cm (10 9/16 x 16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.23 title: Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1750–55 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and gray and black wash over traces of graphite (?); framing lines in pen and brown and black ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Von Halden 14; Constable-Links 819 --- CREATORS * Antonio Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 26.9 x 42.1 cm (10 9/16 x 16 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Antonio Canaletto: 1697-1768 opening date: Antonio Canaletto: 1697-1768. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer). title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830 opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00 Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings opening date: 1936-03-02T05:00:00 Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (organizer) (March 2-April 15, 1936). title: Tiepolo and His Contemporaries opening date: 1938-03-14T05:00:00 Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 14-April 24, 1938). title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: Exhibition of Eighteenth-Century Italian Landscape Painting and Its Influence in England opening date: 1940-01-18T05:00:00 Exhibition of Eighteenth-Century Italian Landscape Painting and Its Influence in England. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1940). title: Drawings by Old Italian Masters opening date: 1940-06-05T04:00:00 Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1941-03-04T05:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Italian Drawings, 1330-1780 opening date: 1941-12-01T05:00:00 Italian Drawings, 1330-1780. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (December 1-20, 1941). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: Topographical Viewpoint opening date: 1945-10-30T05:00:00 Topographical Viewpoint. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30-December 18, 1945). title: Views of Venice opening date: 1953-03-11T04:00:00 Views of Venice. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 26, 1953). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Canaletto and Bellotto opening date: 1960-08-02T04:00:00 Canaletto and Bellotto. Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (organizer) (August 2-31, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings From Correr Museum opening date: 1964-01-21T05:00:00 Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings From Correr Museum. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (January 21-February 16, 1964). title: Canaletto opening date: 1964-10-17T04:00:00 Canaletto. Art Gallery of Ontario (organizer) (October 17-November 15, 1964); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (December 4, 1964-January 10, 1965); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (January 29-February 28, 1965). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: 33 Etchings and Related Works of Canaletto opening date: 1979-03-31T05:00:00 33 Etchings and Related Works of Canaletto. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (March 31-May 21, 1979). title: Venice as City and Theater opening date: 1985-02-27T05:00:00 Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Obach & Co. (est. 1884), London, sold to Dr. Guy Bellingham Smith.) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Dr. Guy Bellingham Smith [1856-?], London, UK. date: before 1911-1927 footnotes: citations: (Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, sold July 6, 1927, cat. no. 9.) date: 1927 footnotes: citations: (Thomas Agnew and Sons (est. 1817), Ltd., London, UK, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 1930.) date: possibly 1927-1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1930- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hadeln, Detlev von. The Drawings of Antonio Canal, called Canaletto. London: Duckworth, 1929. page number: Mentioned: p. 14 url: H. S. F. "A Wash Drawing by Canaletto." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 2 (1933): 23-31. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 23-26 url: Ames, Winslow. “Notes on Drawings: Antonio Canal, Called Canaletto.” Old Master Drawings 12, no. 48 (March 1938). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 53-54, plate 56 url: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 57 url: Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts. Exhibition of Eighteenth Century Italian Landscape Painting and its Influence in England. New Haven, CT: Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University, 1940. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 11, plate 11 url: Smith College Museum of Art. Italian Drawings 1330-1780. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1941. page number: Mentioned: no. 10 url: Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York: H. Bittner, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 36-37 under no. 49, plate 49 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 576 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n108 The Berkshire Museum. Canaletto and Bellotto (August 2- 31, 1960). Pittsfield, MA: The Berkshire Museum, 1960. page number: Mentioned: no. 15 url: Constable, W.G. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 426 under nos. 502, 504, p. 557 no. 819, plate 154 url: Constable, W. G. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768: Ex. Cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1964. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 133, no. 110 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 147 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n171 Puppi, Lionello. The Complete Paintings of Canaletto. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 118 under no. 310 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 147 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n171 Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collections. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 48 under no. 100 url: Constable, W.G. and J.G. Links. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, vol 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. page number: Mentioned: pp. 606- 607, no. 819 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 147 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n167 Wallen, Burr. The William A. Gumberts Collection of Canaletto Etchings. Santa Barbara, CA: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 28-29, fig.11. url: Pignatti, Terisio. Disegni Antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia, vol 1. Venice: Neri Pozza, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 35 url: Corboz, Andre. Canaletto: Una Venezia immaginaria, vol. 1. Milan: Alfiera Electa, 1985. page number: Mentioned: pp. 119-120, 283, 286, 288, 291, 306, 311, 350, 356, 359, 360, 364, 438, 461, 466, 737 D133; Reproduced: p. 120 fig. 26 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Treasures on Paper: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988. page number: url: Constable, W.G. and J.G. Links. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, vol 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned: p. 463 under no. 502, p. 464 under no. 504, p. 606-607 no. 819; Reproduced: Plate 154 no. 819. url: Baetjer, Katherine and J.G. Links. Canaletto. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. page number: Mentioned: p. 267 under no. 80 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: Reproduced: p. 124 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 23, pp. 4, 66-67, 286 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 158 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.23/1930.23_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.23/1930.23_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.23/1930.23_full.tif