Canaletto

By Oscar White Muscarella, Katharine Baetjer

Subjects: Italian Painting, Catalogues, Middle east, antiquities, Metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), Exhibitions

Description: Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), the painter extraordinaire of Venice who was known as Canaletto, is the subject of this exhibition catalog from a recent show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It brings together a wealth of paintings and drawings avidly collected in his day by the English aristocracy and, especially with regard to those assembled from the Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, generally unseen before in this country.