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Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso), c. 1720. Pen and brush and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper.
Pen and brush and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper · 29.4 × 20.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Capriccio: A Street Crossed by Arches (recto) Sketches of Doorway, Staircase and Second Floor of Building (verso)
- Artist
- Canaletto Italian, 1697-1768
- Date
- c. 1720
- Medium
- Pen and brush and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29.4 × 20.8 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Samuel P. Avery Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1697–1768
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.