# Piazza San Marco, in The Italian Settecento

Canaletto painted this in the late 1720s, aged about 30. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: late 1720s
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 27 x 44 1/4 in. (68.6 x 112.4 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988.162
- 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

- [More by Canaletto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/canaletto?hang=749) (6 works)
- [More paintings of the 18th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-18?hang=749) (168 works)
- [18th-century Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-italy?hang=749) (49 works)

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