Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute

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Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute, 1735/44. Etching in black on ivory laid paper.

Etching in black on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 13.5 × 20.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute
Artist: Canaletto Italian, 1697-1768
Date: 1735/44
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image/plate: 13.5 × 20.7 cm (5 3/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 23.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Credit line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1697–1768

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.