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Canaletto · c.1730

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

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The domed church of Santa Maria della Salute rises at the left of the mouth of the Grand Canal, with moored barges and gondolas in the foreground, a row of palaces at right and a sky of white clouds. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Up to 23.5 × 16 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

23.5″16″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

A c.1730 oil painting measuring 49.6 by 73.6 cm, now in the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a gift of Sarah Campbell Blaffer.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canaletto

Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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