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CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-VENICE 1768)
A Capriccio View with Ruins
c.1742-44RCIN 405079
This composition combines imaginary and real architecture in a picturesque setting. Both this painting and its pair, on display at the other end of the wall, show a great debt to Marco Ricci’s capriccio paintings, which Canaletto would have been able to study in Smith’s collection.