The Portico with the Lantern, from Vedute

Prints and Drawings

1735/44

Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768

Employing a wide variety of tones and marks, Canaletto expertly depicted this imagined scene with its smattering of actual ancient ruins. A follower of the artist later copied this important etching to produce the nearly identical painting on the right. The painted version, however, omitted or reinterpreted most of the foreground figures. A new scene of a man standing next to an architectural fragment near the building to the right has also been added, emphasizing the visitor’s interest in the antique.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Canaletto
Title: The Portico with the Lantern, from Vedute
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1735–1744
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 30 × 43.4 cm (11 13/16 × 17 1/8 in.); Plate: 30.4 × 43.6 cm (12 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.3 × 58.1 cm (17 1/16 × 22 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1381.3
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