Roman Monuments

Artist Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (Italian (Venetian), 1697 - 1768)

Date18th century

MediumBrown ink with brown and gray wash on paper

DimensionsOverall: 14 7/8 × 21 3/8 inches (37.78 × 54.29 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-193/4

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Roman Monuments.

Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 17-March 25, 1990, no cat., as Roman Monuments.

Provenance

With Richard Owen, Paris, by September 26, 1932-December 1, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 68, (repro.), as Roman Monuments.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 7, 11, 38, (repro.), as Roman Monuments.

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