Mountain Landscape with Five Bridges, 18th century
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)expand_more
Etchingexpand_more
Gift of Miss Eileen Bigelow and Mrs. O. H. Ingram, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Alice F. Bigelow, 1965expand_more P.13,329
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The Dolomite Mountains form a curtain backdrop to the city of Venice. Here Canaletto takes us up into their rugged terrain. Is there really a spot with such a complex of bridges and cascades' We don’t know, but something inspired the artist to populate this scene with a range of social status from the rich occupants of a fine coach at left, to the workers transporting heavy loads on a horse cart and in baskets on their backs, to an executed man hanging from a gallows at the far right.
Details
- Title
- Mountain Landscape with Five Bridges
- Artist Life
- (Venice), 1697–1768
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.13,329
- Catalogue Raisonne
- B 22 iia/iib; Dev.19 only state
- Curator Approved
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