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Canaletto

Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute

1735/44
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
13.5 × 20.7 cm (5.3 × 8.1 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Though Canaletto's style varies from print to print, it is distinguished by a wide range of tonal variation and a delicate, even poetic, rendering of light.

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