Landscape with Ruined Monuments, from Vedute

Prints and Drawings

1735/44

Canaletto
Italian, 1697-1768

Curiously, Canaletto never printed either of these energetic capriccio landscapes (depictions of fantastic architecture or ruins) individually. Instead, they exist only as a pair on a single sheet (for the right half, see 1922.1381.14). While both images include fictional antiquarian architectural elements, it is not known why the artist combined them. Perhaps it was their mirrored compositions: when placed side by side, both images slope inward toward a church that straddles the margin between the plates and connects the two scenes.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Canaletto
Title: Landscape with Ruined Monuments, 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: 14.1 × 21.5 cm (5 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Plate: 14.7 × 21.9 cm (5 13/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 43.1 × 58.7 cm (17 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Reference Number: 1922.1381.13
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