The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
Painting by Canaletto
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Artist | Canaletto |
Year | c. 1751 |
Type | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 51 cm × 76 cm (20 in × 30 in) |
Location | Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire |
The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens is a landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto.[1] He had made his name painting scenes of his native Venice, but moved to England for nine years from 1746 and painted many noted views of mid-eighteenth-century Great Britain. Vauxhall Gardens was a fashionable pleasure gardens, located to the south of the Thames in London. A tree-lined walk ran some distance towards a statue of Aurora at the eastern perimeter of the gardens.[2]
Canaletto uses an exaggerated perspective.[3] It is now in the Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.[4]
References
Bibliography
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- Kowalczyk, Bożena Anna . Canaletto, 1697–1768. Silvana Editoriale, 2018.
- Parry, Eric. Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
- Uzanne, Octave. Canaletto. Parkstone International, 2023.
See also
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- List of paintings
- The Stonemason's Yard (1725)
- The French Ambassador's Arrival in Venice (1726–1727)
- The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (1730)
- The Bucentaur Returns to the Pier at the Doge's Palace (c. 1730)
- The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola (1738)
- The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute (c. 1740)
- Bacino di San Marco from the Puntana della Dogana (1740–1745)
- The Pra della Valle in Padua (1741–1746)
- Old Horse Guards (1749)
- Westminster Abbey (1749)
- The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens (c.1751)
- Northumberland House (1752)
- Walton Bridge (1754)
- Bernardo Canal (father)
- Bernardo Bellotto (nephew)
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