Category:The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco - Canaletto - Louvre RF 1949-7

**The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco**
	painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal, Musée du Louvre
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Instance of	painting;
Depicts	Venice, bacino di San Marco, Piazzetta San Marco, Doge's Palace, St Mark's Campanile, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Zecca of Venice, St Mark's Basilica and columns of San Marco and San Teodoro
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	Veduta;
Location	Room 723, Denon Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris
Creator	Canaletto;
Owned by	French State;
Collection	Department of Paintings of the Louvre;
Inventory number	RF 1949-7 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre); RF 1949 7 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre);
Inception	1730s;
Width	81 ±1 cm;
Height	47 ±1 cm;
Authority file
	Q18573855; Joconde work ID: 000PE024730; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010062752
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Canaletto: The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description	Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death	7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697	19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768
Location of birth/death	Venice	Venice
Work period	from 1716 until 1768 date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
Authority file	: Q182664 VIAF: 88652637 ISNI: 0000000121428397 ULAN: 500115269 LCCN: n79065963 NLA: 36246904 MusicBrainz: 79e2feb3-1d6f-4d6e-9854-d025efb8240c WGA: c/canalett Open Library: OL130207A Oxford Dict.: 62065 GND: 118638203 SELIBR: 180295 SUDOC: 027312062 BNF: 135268204 NDL: 00842130 BIBSYS: 1592544502630 NKC: jn19981000437 SBN: CFIV009237 BNE: XX988637 NLP: a0000001283360 KulturNav: 66a33d51-ceb2-4339-8496-c6b41c2bbcdc RKD: 121243 J9U: 987007259192205171 Koninklijke: 069517703 WorldCat

Title

The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco

Object type

painting

Genre

Veduta

Date

circa 1730

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 47 cm (18.5 in); width: 81 cm (31.8 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Peintures italiennes, room 23: Les fêtes vénitiennes. Denon, 1^st floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Paintings).

Accession number

RF 1949-7

Place of creation

Italy

Notes

English: Canaletto painted some ten versions of this subject, the most similar to this one being in the Uffizi in Florence. The prototype for the series can be dated to around 1730.

References

Joconde database: entry 000PE024730
Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 1803

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Media in category "The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco - Canaletto - Louvre RF 1949-7"

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Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco - WGA03903.jpg 1,500 × 850; 221 KB
Canaletto, il molo visto dal bacino di san marco, 1730 ca. 01.JPG 2,880 × 1,923; 4.57 MB
Canaletto, il molo visto dal bacino di san marco, 1730 ca. 02.JPG 3,456 × 2,304; 6.7 MB
Canaletto, il molo visto dal bacino di san marco, 1730 ca. 04.JPG 3,456 × 2,304; 6.68 MB
Canaletto, il molo visto dal bacino di san marco, 1730 ca. 03.JPG 3,456 × 2,304; 6.12 MB
Canaletto, il molo visto dal bacino di san marco, 1730 ca. 05.JPG 3,318 × 2,304; 6.55 MB