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Title:Man Smoking a Pipe (recto); Standing Man and Two Studies of His Head (verso)
Artist:Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice)
Date:1697–1768
Medium:Pen and brown ink, over traces of lead or graphite (recto); vertical ruled line in lead or graphite at center, standing men and study of profile head in pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite or lead; study of head in graphite (verso)
Dimensions:11 3/4 x 6 7/16in. (29.8 x 16.4cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1939
Object Number:39.79
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at upper right corners of both recto and verso, "40 / uolta." Annotated on recto in graphite, "67."
F. Kleinberger Galleries
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 8–March 25, 2007.
Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin. "Canaletto e Bellotto: L'arte della veduta," March 13, 2008–June 15, 2008.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 35 (vol.1), fig. no. 35, ill.
Karl Theodore Parker The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. Oxford and London, 1948, p. 26.
William George Constable Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. 2 vols., Oxford, 1962, cat. no. 840, fig. no. 159, p. 565, ill.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 45, fig. no. 45, ill.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 162, ill.
William George Constable Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. 2 vols., Oxford, 1976, cat. no. 840, fig. no. 159, p. 615, ill.
Alessandro Bettagno Canaletto. disegni, dipinti, incisioni. Exh. cat. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, 1982, cat. no. 37, 38, p. 44.
André Corboz Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria. 2 vols., Milan, Italy, 1985, cat. no. D 189, fig. no. D 189, p. 761, ill.
William George Constable, J. G. Links Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal. 1697-1768. 2 vols., Oxford, 1989, cat. no. 840, fig. no. vol. 1, pl. 159, vol. 2, p. 615, ill.
Canaletto. Exh. cat. edited by Katharine Baetjer, Edited by J. G. Links, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 126, fig. no. 126, pp. 356-7, ill.
Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 23, fig. no. 23, pp. 43-44, ill.
Nicholas Ross Canaletto. London, 1993, p. 25, ill.
Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin Canaletto e Bellotto: l'arte della veduta. Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2008, (as attributed to Bellotto), cat. no. 28, pp. 108-109, ill.
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