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Piazza San Marco, Canaletto, late 1720s
Canaletto, portraitCanalettoItalian, 1697–1768

Piazza San Marco

late 1720s · Painting

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Yes, on view now

Where is “Piazza San Marco” now? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 644, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room644

Closed· opens tomorrow at 10:00 AM

On public display.

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Details

Accession number
1988.162

What it shows

TurmCityVenice

In the catalog

PaintingsOilItalian paintingVenetian paintingRococo18th century

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In the life of Canaletto

The whole life

  1. 1716–1719 · Workplace

    Venice

  2. 1719 · Workplace

    Rome

  3. 1719–1720

    Rome: Pannini, van Wittel and the turn to the veduta

    In Rome Canal comes to know the work of the vedutista Giovanni Paolo Pannini and begins to paint views of Venice; his love of landscape painting grows stronger through contacts with the Dutch artists working in Rome, in particular Gaspar van Wittel. Soon he probably realises that the conventions of stage design stand in the way of his natural gift.

  4. 1720–1746 · Workplace

    Venice

  5. until 1728

    The association with Joseph Smith begins

    Sometime before 1728 Canaletto begins his association with Joseph Smith, an English businessman and collector living in Venice, who is appointed British Consul there in 1744; Smith will become the artist's principal agent and patron.

  6. c. 1729 – 1735

    Smith as agent: a “market of taste” for the Venetian veduta

    Joseph Smith — a banker, art dealer and later British consul in Venice — creates a “market of taste” for the Venetian veduta among British aristocrats touring Italy and, as Canaletto's commercial agent from about 1729 to 1735, in effect controls the artist's work to the benefit of them both. Among the young painter's buyers is also the Prince of Liechtenstein.

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