The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

Canaletto

c. 1730 · Oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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About this work

Artist: Canaletto (1697–1768)
Year: c. 1730
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 49.6 × 73.6 cm
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Movement: Baroque

The great domed church of Santa Maria della Salute fills the left of the picture, and beyond it the Grand Canal opens into the basin of San Marco, with gondolas and sailing craft on the water and the Dogana at the point. Canaletto painted this view around 1730, when he was at the height of his trade in views for foreign visitors, on a canvas just under seventy-five centimetres wide. It is one of several treatments of the subject he made over the years, the entrance to the canal being the first thing a traveller arriving by sea would see. The painting belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it forms part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection, the gift of Sarah Campbell Blaffer, and hangs in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. It shows the crisp light and architectural precision that made his name across Europe.

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 Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice 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 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 Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice painted, and in what medium?

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice dates from c. 1730 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 49.6 × 73.6 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 Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice — the Grand Canal from the Bacino, Santa Maria della Salute filling the sky above the gondolas and barges — 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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