About This Artwork

Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768

A Bridge Near a Church in Venice, c. 1720

Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, (black chalk and pen and brown ink sketch on verso), perimeter mounted on cream card
141 x 193 mm
Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund, 1976.424R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979, cat. 125, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), nos. 1A5 and 1A6.

Ownership History

Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1976.