A Regatta on the Grand Canal

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A Regatta on the Grand Canal
Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - Regatta on the Canale Grande - WGA03904.jpg
Artist Canaletto
Yearc.1740
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions122.1 cm× 182.8 cm(48.1 in× 72.0 in)
Location National Gallery, London

A Regatta on the Grand Canal is a 1740 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto. [1] It depicts a view of the Grand Canal in his native Venice. [2] It takes place during the Carnival season when the annual gondola regatta is being held on the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. In the left foreground the is the Palazzo Balbi. By the 1860s the painting was in the collection of the Duke of Leeds at North Yorkshire. Today it is in the National Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1929. [3] An identically-titled painting by Canaletto from 1735 is in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. [4]

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  1. Foxhall & Neher p.234
  2. Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. Merrell, 2000. p.458
  3. "Canaletto | A Regatta on the Grand Canal | NG4454 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  4. O'Toole p.235

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