# The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, in Canaletto

Canaletto painted this in 1742/1744, aged about 45. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Sunlight floods the Piazza San Marco, where Venetians in capes and tricorn hats stroll and talk among market stalls set up around three red flagstaffs.

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## The work

- Date: 1742/1744
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 114.6 x 153 cm (45 1/8 x 60 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945.15.3
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Canaletto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/canaletto), Italian, 1697–1768

Canaletto, the son of a Venetian painter of theatre scenery, turned in the 1720s to painting views of his native city and became its leading vedutista. British travellers on the Grand Tour were his most eager patrons, many through the merchant and consul Joseph Smith.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Canaletto's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-canaletto?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Italian Settecento](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/italian-settecento?hang=749) (25 works)
- [18th-century Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-italy?hang=749) (49 works)

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