Canaletto

The House with the Inscription and The House with the Peristyle, from Vedute

1735/44

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Left image: 29.6 × 21.4 cm (11 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Left plate: 30.1 × 21.6 cm (11 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.); Right image: 29.5 × 21.3 cm (11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Right plate: 30 × 21.7 cm (11 13/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 58.6 cm (17 1/16 × 23 1/8 in.)

Collection no.

1922.1381.30

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Canaletto. The House with the Inscription and The House with the Peristyle, from Vedute, 1735/44. Inventory 1922.1381.30. Canaletto; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159768. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. View scope: The House with the Inscription only. The museum records two images on one sheet, with separate Left image and Right image dimensions. This exact native photograph shows the inscribed-house print; the companion House with the Peristyle and the complete paired sheet are outside this photograph. The entire supplied native photograph is retained.