Veduta Ideata with San Simone Piccolo, ca. 1735

  • Canaletto, Italian, 1697-1768

Pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of black chalk on yellow antique laid paper

  • Sheet: 12 1/4 × 18 3/8 inches (31.1 × 46.7 cm)

Gift of Wilhelm R. Valentiner

29.171

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

July 21, 1924, Fraser-Tytler sale, sold by (Christie's, London, England) no. 18. 1928, Thos. Agnew and Sons (London, England). 1929, William R. Valentiner (Detroit, Michigan, USA) 1929-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Corboz, André. Canaletto: Una Venezia Imaginaria. Milan, 1985, vol. 1: pp. 352-353 (figs. 430, 431); vol. 2: p. 736, D126. Constable, William George. Canaletto. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, 1964, no. 95. Constable, William George. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. Oxford, 1962, no. 777. Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 96-97, no. 42, p. 145 (pl. xvii). Pictures from the Grand Tour. London,1978, no. 70. Richardson, E.P. Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Heron Art Museum. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, no. 17.

Canaletto, Veduta Ideata with San Simone Piccolo, ca. 1735, pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of black chalk on yellow antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 29.171.