Collection
Antonio Canaletto
(Italy 17 Oct 1697–10 Apr 1768)
- Title
- Le porte del Dolo
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
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30.0 x 43.0cm platemark/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., [incised plate] "A Canal...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Sir Kenneth Street 1962
- Accession number
- DO8.1962
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The setting is the oval-shaped basin of the locks at Dolo, a town on the Brenta. Moored at the quay is a 'burchiello', a type of passenger barge. Under the archway a butcher sits in his shop surrounded by carcasses. In front of the shop, a diminutive lacemaker works at a table.
- Exhibition history (2)
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Acquisitions 1962, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Apr 1963–12 May 1963
Light from Shadow, the role of chiaroscuro in spatial imaging, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, 22 Oct 2003–29 Nov 2003
