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Canaletto
[Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768]
| • Also known as: | Giovanni Antonio Canal | | • Relationships: | Canaletto's nephew, Bernardo Bellotto, expertly mimicked his style and even adopted the nickname "Canaletto" for himself. This has made it difficult to attribute individual paintings to one artist or the other. | | • Subject matter: | Specializes in Landscapes. |
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Original works by Canaletto available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
A View from the Fondamenta Nuove Looking Towards Murano
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Canaletto
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Dogana in Venice, ca.1724-30
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Canaletto at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Molo, Seen from the San Marco Basin, ca.1730-31
Canaletto in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
Canaletto at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
4 works by Canaletto online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Grand Canal from Palazzo Flangini to Palazzo Bembo, ca.1740
Charing Cross and Northumberland House, pen and ink
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, Ontario
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
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Many paintings and drawings online
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Le Porte del Dolo, ca.1744
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Piazza di San Marco, Venice, 1742-46
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Etchings of Venice
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Warwick Castle, 1752
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
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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
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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
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, Spain
Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day
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
Bacino di San Marco: From the Piazzetta, ca.1735-45
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
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
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
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)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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!
An Imaginary View of Padua, 1744
Commercial Galleries:
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Pictures from Image Archives:
Canaletto in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: A Regatta on the Grand Canal
Artonline
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
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
The Athenaeum
51 works online
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Other Web Sites:
ArtsNet Minnesota
Christie's
The Old Horse Guards, London, from St. James's Park
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Online Archive of California
Al Dolo
Online Archive of California
Mestre
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles:
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
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
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