Architecture in Ruins

c. 1754

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Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Architecture in Ruins

c. 1754

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

Walters Art Gallery, "18th c. Paintings", June - September 1954

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Age of Elegance: The Rococo & Its Effect", April 25 - June 14, 1959; cat. 181A

Art Gallery of Ontario, "Canaletto", October 17, 1964 - February 28, 1965, illus. p. 131; circulated to: National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early & Late Works by European & American Artists", October 22 - December 8, 1968, cat #20, repr. p. 39.

Allentown Art Museum, "Circle of Canaletto", February 20 - March 21, 1971.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Canaletto Etchings", March 31 - May 20, 1979.

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.