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Canaletto

Landscape with the Pilgrim at Prayer, from Vedute

1735/44
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
13.9 × 20.7 cm (5.5 × 8.1 in)

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The most distinguished Italian vista painter of the eighteenth century, Canaletto gave up painting in the early 1740s, focusing entirely on drawing and etching.

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