Ascension Day Festival at Venice

Canaletto, 1765/1766

The image shows a busy waterway filled with various boats, some with figures on board. The boats are adorned with flags. In the background, there is a cityscape with a church tower and buildings. The brushstrokes are detailed, and the color palette consists mainly of brown and blue tones. The scene depicts a historic setting, with distant structures and a slightly overcast sky.
Artist
Canaletto
Date
1765/1766
Type
Drawing
Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over traces of graphite, tip of the brush with black wash, heightened with a few touches of white gouache (laid on thick eighteenth-century paper)
Dimensions
38.7 × 55.5 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

The image shows a busy waterway filled with various boats, some with figures on board. The boats are adorned with flags. In the background, there is a cityscape with a church tower and buildings. The brushstrokes are detailed, and the color palette consists mainly of brown and blue tones. The scene depicts a historic setting, with distant structures and a slightly overcast sky.

Canaletto