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Original works by Canaletto available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 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
Canaletto at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Canaletto
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 NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
3 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Canaletto at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Molo, Seen from the San Marco Basin, ca.1730-31
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Canaletto at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
4 works by Canaletto online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Canaletto at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Canaletto
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
St. Mark's and the Clock Tower, Venice
The Campo di Rialto and S. Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Clock Tower in the Piazza San Marco, 1728/30 (Zoom)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, ca.1750
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Many paintings and drawings online
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
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
A View from the Fondamenta Nuove Looking Towards Murano
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
The Pantheon
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day
Old Walton Bridge over the Thames
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
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Molo, Venice
Canaletto in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
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
Architectural Caprice with Classical Ruins and Buildings
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Prà della Valle in Padua
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
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
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
The Bacino di San Marco, looking North
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 paintings by Canaletto online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
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
The Molo from the Bacino di San Marco, Venice, 1747-50
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
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Canaletto at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
2 paintings online
Virtual Uffizi
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Page forward for several paintings by Canaletto
Pictures from Image Archives:
Canaletto in the Art Renewal Center
Canaletto in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: A Regatta on the Grand Canal
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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"Giovanni Antonio Canal"
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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"Canaletto"
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Miscellaneous Sites:
Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Collection
The Old Horse Guards
ArtsNet Minnesota
Christie's
The Old Horse Guards, London, from St. James's Park
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Online Archive of California
Al Dolo
Online Archive of California
Mestre
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Canaletto 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"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.
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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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