id: 137224 accession number: 1962.169 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.169 updated: 2024-04-24 11:46:23.902000 Piazza San Marco, Venice, c. 1740. Attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721–1780). Oil on canvas; framed: 164.5 x 264 x 12 cm (64 3/4 x 103 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 136.2 x 232.5 cm (53 5/8 x 91 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.169 title: Piazza San Marco, Venice title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1740 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1745 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721–1780) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 164.5 x 264 x 12 cm (64 3/4 x 103 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 136.2 x 232.5 cm (53 5/8 x 91 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism opening date: 1970-09-19T04:00:00 Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 19-November 8, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (December 2, 1970-January 9, 1971); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 7-March 21, 1971). 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: Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light opening date: 2016-11-25T05:00:00 Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light. Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala, Milan, Italy (organizer) (November 25, 2016-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Catalogue of Pictures, Chiefly by the Old Masters of the Italian, Flemish and Spanish Schools, Birmingham (England), Society of Arts, 1833, cat. no. 112.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester, 1857, cat. no. 827.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'British Institution, London, 1863, cat. no. 63.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Toledo, 1970-71, cat. no. 16, illus.', 'opening_date': '1970-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallerie d\'Italia - Piazza Scala, Milan, Italy (11/25/2016 - 3/5/2017): "Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light" catalogue number 15, p. 82-83', 'opening_date': '2016-11-25T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE William, 2nd Earl of Craven [1809-1866], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: by 1833 footnotes: citations: George Grimstone Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven [1841-1883], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: 1866-1883 footnotes: citations: William George Robert, 4th Earl of Craven [1868-1921], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: 1883-1921 footnotes: citations: Cornelia (nee Martin), Countess of Craven [1877-1961], Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire date: 1921-1961 footnotes: citations: (sale: Sotheby’s, London, November 29, 1961, no. 42 [as by Canaletto]; purchased by Faroni); date: 1961 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bellotti, Pietro, Canaletto, and Bożena Anna Kowalczyk. Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light. 2016. catalogue number 15 page number: 82-83 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” July 20, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0981 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” July 25, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0984 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. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n170 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. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n170 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 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 316-318; Reproduced: p. 317 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned: P. 23; reproduced: P. 25, fig. 5 url: Kowalczyk, Bożena Anna Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light. Exh. cat. Milan: Gallerie d'Italia. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 75, 82-83. no. 15; 273 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_full.tif