Ascension Day Festival at Venice
Ascension Day Festival at Venice
- Artist
- Canaletto
- Also Known As
- Antonio Canal
- Artist Dates
- 1697-1768
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Ascension Day Festival at Venice
- Date
- 1765/1766
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, tip of the brush with black wash, heightened with a few touches of white gouache on thick laid paper
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 55.5 cm (15 1/4 × 21 7/8 in)
- K Number
- K433
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1963.15.5
- Notes
Provenance
Lodovico Furlanetto, Venice; purchased 1787/1789 by Richard Colt Hoare [1758-1838], Stourhead, Wilshire; by descent to Henry Ainslie Hoare, Stourhead; (sale, Christie's, London, 2 June 1883, no. 31); bought by Knowles; (P&D Colnaghi, London); Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (sold, Christie's, London, 10 July 1936, no. 44); (Bellesi, London); Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to the NGA