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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso)
    Antonio Canaletto. Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso), c. 1720. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004784

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    Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso)

    by Antonio Canaletto

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "A present from Sig. Canale / commonly called Canaletto"

    Provenance

    Probably given by the artist to John MacGowan (died 1780), Edinburgh [his stamp, Lugt 1496, verso, upper left, in black]; sold January 26, 1804, lot 118. Count Antoine von Seilern (1901-1978), London [Constable 1962]. David M. Koetser Gallery, Zurich, by 1942 [Constable 1962]; sold to the Art Institute, 1943.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 10, cat. 7, pl. I. Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1958. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 17, pl. VIII, as "Ruins of a Courtyard." Art Gallery of Toronto, "Canaletto," October 17-November 15, 1964, p. 99, cat. 79 (ill.), cat. by W.G. Constable; traveled to The National Gallery of Canada, December 4, 1964-January 10, 1965; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, January 29-February 28, 1965. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 126, pl. 133, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

    Publications

    Otto Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America (New York, 1947), p. 37, no. 50 (ill.). Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p. W. G. Constable, Canaletto I (Oxford, 1962 and 1976), p. 566, no. 845, pl. 160. Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings From the 15th to the 19th Century (New York, 1963), p. 29, fig. 5. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 149-150 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings and Sketchbooks in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 1A7.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Canaletto / Italian, 1697-1768
    Date
    c. 1720
    Medium
    Pen and brush and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    29.4 × 20.8 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Samuel P. Avery Fund
    Accession no.
    1943.514

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