Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute
Canaletto
1735/44
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 13.5 × 20.7 cm (5 3/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 23.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84300
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Though Canaletto's style varies from print to print, it is distinguished by a wide range of tonal variation and a delicate, even poetic, rendering of light.
About the Artist
Canaletto · 1697–1768
The most famous view-painter of the 18th century, Canaletto's works are characteristically topographically correct with smooth, precise handling. His patrons were primarily English collectors.