The Bacino, Venice, with the Dogana and a Distant View of the Isola di San Giorgio

Luca Carlevaris

ca. 1709 · Oil on canvas · Robert Lehman Collection

This veduta looking east along the Grand Canal shows the quay at the north side of the Dogana, itself surmounted by Bernardino Falcone’s statue of Fortune on a globe. In the distance is the façade of the majestic San Giorgio Maggiore. Carlevaris animates the painting with scenes from Venetian life, a subject he first studies in preparatory oil sketches. This painting, together with three other paintins in the Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.87, .89 and .90), form a series.

Artist

Luca Carlevaris

Date

ca. 1709

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975