Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697–1768), Italian artist, portrait print, 1735 by Antonio Visentini, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
"There is only one portrait of Canaletto that can be accepted as fully authentic. This is the engraving which appears with a portrait of Visentini as the frontispiece of the Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum of 1735, and of the enlarged editions ( Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores) of 1742 and 1751. Canaletto is seen head shoulders, within an oval enclosed by a carved frame ornamented with flowers and foliage, and inscribed below the portrait Antonius Canal/ Origine Civis/ Venetus. At the bottom of the frame is a shield with a chevron, The Canal coats of arms. In the lower left margin is the inscription Ex Monochromate Io. Bapt. Piazzetta; and lower right, Antonio Visentini Inv. Del. et Sculp. From the date of the first publication of the engraving, Canaletto as represented cannot be more then thirty-eight; and since there is evidence of that the plates for the Prospectus Magni Canalis were ready in 1730, he may well not be much more then thirty."" - Constable, W. G. (1962). Canaletto (Vol. I). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press"
Size: 3771px × 4750px
Location: Canaletto (Vol. I) Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
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