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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