Canaletto

(Italian, 1697–1768)

Room Paintings holds 13 paintings by Canaletto, from The Met and the National Gallery of Art. They date from 1720 to 1754. We file most of them under 18th-Century Painting, and some under Baroque. The most common subjects are architecture, cityscapes and boats and harbors. 12 of them suit a room in our lists, most often the home office and living room.

Styles

18th-Century Painting 10
Baroque 3

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The 13 paintings

Piazza San Marco, Canaletto, late 1720s, oil on canvas

Canaletto Piazza San Marco, late 1720s The Met

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge, 1730s The Met

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, 1730s The Met

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right, 1730s The Met

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, 1730s The Met

A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon, Canaletto, 1743, oil on canvas

Canaletto A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon, 1743 The Met

Warwick Castle, Canaletto, 1748, oil on canvas

Canaletto Warwick Castle, 1748 The Met

Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups across a sun-drenched plaza in front of a domed church next to a long, pale pink building in this horizontal painting.

Canaletto The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, 1742/1744 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a port-side town along a canal, with a church across the water from us in this horizontal landscape painting. A bright blue sky with billowing white, pink, and gray clouds fills the top two-thirds of the painting.

Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice, 1742/1744 National Gallery of Art

Imaginary View with a Tomb by the Lagoon, Canaletto, early 1740s, oil on canvas

Canaletto Imaginary View with a Tomb by the Lagoon, early 1740s The Met

We look slightly down across a sun-drenched plaza with people scattered among ruins, buildings, and around a free-standing column in this vertical landscape painting. The people we can see have light skin.

Canaletto English Landscape Capriccio with a Column, c. 1754 National Gallery of Art

Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone ruin, a bridge and river, and, in the distance, buildings along a flat-topped hill carpeted with grass in this vertical painting.

Canaletto English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace, c. 1754 National Gallery of Art

Warm light pours onto white stone and brown brick buildings in a grassy landscape in this horizontal painting. Tiny people walk, stand, sit, and work across the turf, among the buildings, and over a bridge spanning a canal to our right.

Canaletto The Porta Portello, Padua, c. 1741/1742 National Gallery of Art