CanalettoItalian, 1697–1768The Stonemason's Yard
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “The Stonemason's Yard” now? Collection: The National Gallery, London. Unknown.
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
The Stonemason's Yard (formally known as Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità) is an early oil painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. It depicts an informal scene in Venice, looking over a temporary stonemason's yard in the Campo San Vidal set up for the construction of Andrea Tirali's facade of the church of San Vidal, and across the Grand Canal towards the church of Santa Maria della Carità. Painted in the mid to late 1720s, it is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London and is considered one of Canaletto's finest works.
Details
- Accession number
- NG127
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — Canaletto · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Canaletto
The whole life1720–1746 · Workplace
Venice
1725
A collector's agent: Canal's views have “the sun shining”
In 1725 Alessandro Marchesini, buyer for the Lucchese collector Stefano Conti, asks about two more “views of Venice” and is urged instead to consider the work of Antonio Canal: it is like Carlevaris, but you can see the sun shining in it.
late 1720s
Owen Swiny urges him to paint views for tourists
Many of Canaletto's pictures are sold to Englishmen on their Grand Tour, first through the agency of Owen Swiny, who in the late 1720s encourages him to paint small topographical views of Venice with a commercial appeal for tourists and foreign visitors to the city.
