Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal) — Canaletto

Canaletto

Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

1741

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Etching; undivided plate, only state
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 13/16 × 17 3/16 in. (30 × 43.7 cm)
Collection no.
1973.634
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Purchase, Gift of Mary V.T. Eberstadt and Bequest of Gertrude Moira Flanagan, by exchange, 1973. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression to at most 100,000 bytes; no crop or generated content.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location checked Sep 8, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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