Artist
Bernardo Bellotto (Italian (Venetian), 1722–1780)Italian (Venetian), 1722–1780
CultureItalian
Titles
- The Marketplace at Pirna
Datec. 1764
PlaceSaxony, Germany
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 19 × 31 3/8 in. (48.3 × 79.7 cm)
Frame: 29 1/8 × 41 1/2 in. (74 × 105.4 cm)
Frame: 29 1/8 × 41 1/2 in. (74 × 105.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection
Object number61.71
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
209 Nicandros Gallery
On view
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Department
Arts of Europe and the MediterraneanObject Type
(1) indicated by small stamp of eagle on paper transferred from an earlier frame.
More information about the provenance.
Exhibition History"Venice 1700-1800," The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts; John Huron Art Museum, Indianapolis, 1952.
"Art Treasures for America," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961–62.
"Paintings from American Museums: 1976 U.S.S.R. Exchange," State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia, February 11–March 24, 1976; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, April 8–May 20, 1976; State Museum of Ukrainian Art, Kiev, Ukraine, June 3–July 15, 1976; Belorussian State Museum of Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus, July 30–September 10, 1976.
Musée Marmottan, Paris, 1976.
"A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, February 5–April 24, 1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 17–August 7, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 8–November 27, 1994; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, December 17, 1994–March 4, 1995.
“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.
"Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 29–October 21, 2001.
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