Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Architecture in Ruins
1748-1758
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Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Architecture in Ruins
1748-1758
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 41 1/2 x 41 in. (105.4 x 104.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.194
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs, Baltimore; purchased from Eugene Fischhof, Paris 1909; sold by Sedelmeyer, Paris, 3rd sale, June 3-5, 1907, no.108; Sir Charles Robinson, London
Jacobs Reinstallation 2026
A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
Henry Barton Jacobs, "The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs", 1938, no. 27, ill.
Elisabeth C. G. Packard, "The Restoration of Two Paintings in the Jacobs Collection", BMA News 18, no. 2 (December 1954): 3-12
"Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect", exhibition catalogue no. 181A, Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959
Eloise Spaeth, "American Art Museums & Galleries: An Introduction to Looking", Harper & Bros, New York, 1960, p. 51.
W. G. Constable, "Canaletto", Oxford, England, 1962, Vol. II, cat. no. 511(c), p. 430. Listed as "Capricco: a pavillion and a ruined arcase by the Lagoon"
Time Magazine. October 16, 1964, Vol 84, No. 16, page 90, reproduced in color.
W.G. Constablelo, "Canaletto" catalogues for Canadian Exhibition, October 1964 - February 1965. Illus. p. 131.
Lionello Puppi, "L'Opera Completea del Canaletto", Milan: Rizzoli, 1968, no. 314B
Gertrude Rosenthal, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 39, ill.
W. G. Constablelo and J. G. Links, "Canaletto", 2 vols, rev. ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, 2:511(c)
Burr Wallen, "The William A. Gumberts Collection of Canaletto Etchings", Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979, fig. 12, p. 29.
Gertrude Rosenthal, ed. and William L. Barcham, "Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIIth centuries from the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 245 - 253, ill. p. 244.
"Object of the Week", Baltimore Sunday Sun, Rotogravure Section, March 4, 1956 repr., additionally repr. October 26, 1958
