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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
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
Canaletto at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 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
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)
Canaletto at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Clock Tower in the Piazza San Marco, 1728/30 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Canaletto at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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
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
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
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
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
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
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
2 paintings by Canaletto online
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
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"
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Canaletto at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
2 paintings online
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Virtual Uffizi
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
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)
Page forward for several paintings by Canaletto
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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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