Vaprio d'Adda

Bernardo Bellotto

1744 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of Canonica d’Adda at the right and Vaprio at the center. In the foreground, well-heeled figures provide stand-ins for viewers of the painting, gesturing with interest to the picturesque view. On related drawings Bellotto noted that he made this painting and its pendant (now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples) in 1744 for Count Simonetta in Milan.

Artist

Bernardo Bellotto

Date

1744

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1939