About This Artwork

Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768

Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute, 1735/44

Etching in black on ivory laid paper
135 x 207 mm (image/plate); 166 x 237 mm (sheet)

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1955.1015

Prints and Drawings
Not on Display

Though Canaletto's style varies from print to print, it is distinguished by a wide range of tonal variation and a delicate, even poetic, rendering of light.