Imaginary View of Venice, Houses at Left with Figures on Terraces

An etching of a city scene with crumbling houses and terraces at left, a large dome rising at center, and a seated figure on a broken wall at right. Small figures move among rubble in the foreground beneath a cloudy sky, with fine hatched lines modeling light and shadow.

Artist

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Date

1741

Medium

Etching; undivided plate, only state

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3909 × 2731 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973