The Portico with the Lantern
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Italian, 1697 - 1768
about 1735-1744
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 11 15/16 × 17 1/4 in. (30.3 × 43.8 cm)
Sheet: 16 7/16 × 20 9/16 in. (41.7 × 52.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.31
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: A. Canal. f. V. Watermark: Letter "A" above three crescents
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Canaletto's Vedute Prints: An Exhibition in Honor of Adolf Weil, Jr., Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 6, 2015.
Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 28.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Italian Master Prints of the 18th Century: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 16-November 4, 1984, no. 29.
Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-September 3, 1995, no. 10.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, p.71, ill. p.70, listed, p.87, no. 62.
Richard Rand and John Varriano, Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1995, pp. 67-68, fig. 28; p. 92, no. 10.
Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p. 49, no. 28.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Master Prints of the Eighteenth Century: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, no. 29, pl. 10.
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.74.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 156-157, ill. p.156, no. 93.
Sarah G. Powers and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Canaletto's Vedute Prints, An Exhibition in Honor of Adolph Weil Jr., Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2015, p. 8, fig. 4.
Provenance
William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on June 14, 1983; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
R. Bromberg, Canaletto's Etchings, London, 1974, no. 10.
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