Rough Sketches

The first draft of an idea that Canaletto was feeling had a potential for making a good final drawing or painting?

Here we see Canaletto jotting down his ideas and checking if there could be a potential for a painting.

Or checking out the symmetries and composition, how buildings would fill the space and show their personality, or gain one.

As Canaletto used to draw on location, to get the framing and the emotions of his paintings, I want to show here a sample of the material that is available on the web and in Museums.

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Canaletto: [ca. 1720] - A Bridge Near a Church in Venice - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper - Art Institute Chicago

Canaletto: [ca. 1720] - A Bridge Near a Church in Venice
Drawing - Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper - Art Institute Chicago - size (HxW): 14.1x19.3 cm

Canaletto: [ca. 1763-68] - Interior of the Basilica of San Marco, Showing the Crossing and the Choir - Drawing - Pen and brown ink over black chalk - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Canaletto: Venice - The Dogana di Mare and S Maria della Salute - Drawing - Pen and brown ink over black chalk - Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Canaletto: Sketch - Sketch - Pen on white paper - Private Collection - Mr. Archibald G. B. Russell

Canaletto: Part of the panorama of the Lido - Sketch - Pen on white paper, preliminary lines in pencil - Private Collection - Mr. Charles Loeser, Florence

Canaletto: [1729] - A View across the Piazzetta towards S.Giorgio Maggiore - Sketch - Pen on white paper - Private Collection - Professor William Bateson, Professor William Bateson

Canaletto: [1720-30] - View of the old Fish Market in Venice - Drawing - Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite, ruled in graphite, on cream laid paper - Philadelphia Museum of Art

Canaletto: [1740-43] - St. Mark's Square - Study of the Facade of the Basilica and the Doge's Palace - Drawing - Pen and brown ink - Private Collection, Venezia

Canaletto: [ca. 1730] - Veduta dal traghetto del ponte della Salute - Drawing - Pen, brown ink, and traces of black chalk on white paper - Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia

Canaletto: Houses Along a River - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, on paper - The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Canaletto: [1734] - Verso - Sketches of buildings - Drawing - Pen and ink - Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 907489

Canaletto: [ca. 1725] - Veduta del Ponte di Rialto (The Grand Canal near the Ponte del Rialto) - Drawing - Pen and brown ink with red and black chalk on paper - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Canaletto: Little Walsingham House and the Corner of Ripley's Admiralty Building - Sketch - Pen and ink - Private Collection - Dr. Viggiano, Venezia

Canaletto: [ca. 1720] - Architectural Sketches - Drawing - Black chalk and pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream card - Art Institute Chicago

Canaletto: [ca. 1740-42] - Verso - A sketch of buildings - Drawing - Ruled and free pencil - Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 907497

Canaletto: Façade of the Church of S. Maria della Visitazione or della Pieta, Venice - Drawing - Pen and brown ink on paper - The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Canaletto: View of the Piazza San Marco with the Procuratie Vecchie - Drawing - Graphite - The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Canaletto: Imaginary Architectural View - Drawing - Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on paper - The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Canaletto: The Dogana and S. Maria della Salute from the Molo di Terranova - Drawing - Pen and brown ink with red and black chalk on paper - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford