Francesco Guardi
Venice, the Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute
1744
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 51 15/16 in. (92.1 x 131.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.215
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1938; from Mary Frick Jacobs, Baltimore; purchased from Blakeslee Galleries, New York, 1913; Collection Arthur J. Sulley, Middletown, Berkshire, England; purchased from Palazzo Comello-Montalba, Venice (unconfirmed)
Dayton Art Institute, "The City by the River and the Sea," April 18-May 28, 1951.
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, "I Vedusti Veneziani del Settecento," June 10-October 15, 1967, no. 133.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," October 22, 1968 - December 8, 1968, no. 31, p. 50.
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, "I Vedusti Veneziani del Settecento," June 10-October 15, 1967, no. 133.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," October 22, 1968 - December 8, 1968, no. 31, p. 50.
'The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs,' Baltimore: Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, 1938, no. 28 [as "Canals of Venice"]
'The Print Collector's Quarterly, April 1940, pp. 179-215.
W. G. Constable, 'Two Paintings by Marieschi,' "BMA News," January 1949, pp. 1-4, ill. p. 3.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, 'A proposito della mostra Bergamasco de Marieschi,' "Arte Veneta," XX, 1966, p. 316.
Rolf Kultzen, 'Francesco Guardi in der Alten Pinakothek, Munchen,' Munich 1967, p. 24 [as "Grand Canal"]
Terisio Pignatti, 'The Contemporajeity of the 18th century Venetial Vedutisti,' "Art International," Vol. XI/10, Christmas 1967, p. 24 [as "Grand Canal"]
Gertrude Rosenthal, et al. 'Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIth centuries from the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art,' Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 260-273, ill p. 260
Ellis Waterhouse, 'Burlington Magazine,' vol. 124, no. 250, May 1982, p. 30.
Denis Mahon, 'When did Francesco Guardi Become a Vedutista?', "The Burlington Magazine, Feb. 1968, pp. 69, 70, 72.
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 50, ill.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, ed. "L'opera completta di Francesco Guardi," Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1974, ill. 101, pg.95.
Inscribed: None
On View: Jacobs, Gallery 8
