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Canaletto Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
The Thames and London from Richmond House, pen and ink with wash, 1746-47
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Allegorical Tomb of Lord Somers
Warwick Castle, East Front from the Courtyard, 1752
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Canaletto at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 works by Canaletto
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Canaletto
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
3 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Italy 17th – 18th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Canaletto at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Molo, Seen from the San Marco Basin
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Imaginary View of Padua, etching, ca.1741-44
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, ca.1730
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
St. Mark's and the Clock Tower, Venice
The Campo di Rialto and S. Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Clock Tower in the Piazza San Marco, 1728/30 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Many paintings and drawings online
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
The Bacino di San Marco, looking North
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Etchings of Venice
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Architectural Capriccio
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
The Bucintoro returning to the Molo
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Regatta on the Grand Canal, 1730s
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Veduta del Canal Grande
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Canal Grande da Ca' Balbi verso Rialto, 1720-23
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Il rio dei Mendicanti
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
The Portico With The Lantern, etching, 1740s
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
View of the Molo, Venice
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
The Interior of the Rotunda, Ranelagh, 1754
The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens, ca.1751
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
The Pantheon
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Santa Maria della Salute, ca.1740
The Grand Canal, ca.1740
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Village sur la Brenta
Vue de Mestre
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (mostly in Italian)
Prospettiva con portico
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Portique à la lanterne, 1742
Museo Correr, Venice (in Italian)
Capriccio architettonico
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The View of San Marco Quay from the Bay, ca.1730s
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
View of Piazza San Marco, ca.1730s
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames, ca.1752
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and The Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, ca.1750
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Betrothal of the Venetian Doge with the Adriatic Sea, ca.1730s
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Venice: Piazza San Marco, Seen from Campo San Basso, 1760s
Venice: The Riva Degli Schiavoni Towards the East, 1760s
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
An Island in the Lagoon with a Gateway and a Church, 1743-44
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
The Portico with the Lantern
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
View of the Mills of Dolo on the Brenta
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Canaletto at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Virtual Uffizi
Palazzo Ducale in Venice
View of the Grand Canal
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
7 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Venice through Canaletto's Eyes
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Canaletto Drawings: 47 Works (Dover)
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Canaletto
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