The Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day

Canaletto

c. 1728–1729 · Oil on canvas · Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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About this work

Artist: Canaletto (1697–1768)
Year: c. 1728–1729
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 182 × 259 cm
Collection: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Movement: Baroque

On Ascension Day the Doge of Venice sailed out in the gilded state barge, the Bucintoro, to cast a ring into the Adriatic in the annual marriage of the city to the sea. Canaletto shows the barge returning to the Molo before the Doge's Palace, the water crowded with gondolas and the quay with spectators, the Piazzetta and the Library behind. He painted the ceremony many times; this large canvas, more than two and a half metres wide, dates from the late 1720s, and variants are in the Royal Collection at Windsor, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Uffizi. It was bought for the Hermitage in St Petersburg in the 1760s together with his Reception of the French Ambassador, and in 1930 was transferred to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, where it remains. The Russian painter Fyodor Alekseyev copied it, and the copy is in the Russian Museum.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day in the public domain?

Yes. Canaletto (1697–1768) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day painted, and in what medium?

The Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day dates from c. 1728–1729 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 182 × 259 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Canaletto's The Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day — the gilded Bucintoro returning to the Molo on Ascension Day, the lagoon crowded with gondolas before the Doge's Palace — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Venice: The Grand Canal and the Lagoon, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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