Detail of The Grand Canal above the Rialto by Guardi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011

The Grand Canal above the Rialto

Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 21 x 33 3/4 in. (53.3 x 85.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Purchase, 1871

Accession Number: 71.119

Gallery Label:

Here Guardi shows the bridge of the Rialto with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi and the vegetable market on the right. He has created an effect of snapshot-like immediacy by arbitrarily cropping the buildings at the left. The canvas dates to the 1760s and is a pendant of the view of "Santa Maria della Salute" (71.120).

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