A View of the Piazza San Marco, Venice
Artist:
Francesco Zanin
(Italian, 1824 - 1884)
Culture: Italian
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 x 43 1/2 in. (73.7 x 110.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Object number: 81.192.1
Signed: signed l.r. "Zanin Francesco 1866"
Provenance: Lenora Brown (1933-2020) and Walter F. Brown (1930-2014), San Antonio, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1981
Label Text
Francesco Zanin was a nineteenth-century admirer of the great eighteenth-century painter Antonio Canale (Canaletto). Zanin's carefully executed paintings, such as this example, well illustrate his source of inspiration.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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