Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso)
Canaletto
1715–1725
- Medium
- Pen and brush and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29.4 × 20.8 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphiteinkpen and ink drawingsgray washwashprints and drawingcolored inkbrown inkpaper (fiber product)
About
Canaletto made many finished drawings with pen and wash; sometimes they depict an actual scene, but just as often they contain more than a touch of fantasy. This capriccio may be based on reminiscences of the little town of Chioggia.
