THE PRICE OF FAME
- Munch, Tiger and Bear
- Dürer, Five Lansquenets
- Bonnard, Dans la Rue
- Vuillard, La Couturiére
- Bellows, The Hold-Up
- Magritte, Oreille-Cloche
- Canaletto, Landscape
- Cezanne, Self-Portrait at the Easel
- Matisse, Repos du Modèle
- Pissarro, Rue Saint-Romaine
- Tiepolo, Three Soldiers
- Rouault, L’Enfant de la Balle
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- after Brueghel, Saint Jerome
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Piranesi, The Villa Albani
- after Rubens, St. Mary Magdalene
- Millet, La Fileuse Auvergnate
- Beckmann, Jacob Wrestles
- Corot, Environs de Rome
- Tissot, Le Matin
- Whistler, Little Dorothy
- Géricault, Cheval Anglais
- Ostade, The Barn
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- Watteau & Thomassin, Femme
- Goya, Nanny’s Boy
- Palmer, Herdsman’s Cottage
- Delacroix, Arabes d’Oran
- Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics
- after Boucher, The Snare
- after da Vinci, Caricature Head
- Baskin, Bird-Man
- after Turner, In the Campagna
- after Raphael, A Muse
- Kirchner, Railway Curve
- Daumier, Eh, Eh ? Petit Gredin…
- Robert, Le Poteau
- Rowlandson, Wood Nymphs
- Doré, Lapplander Peasants
- van Dyck, Portrait of Brueghel
- after Constable, Mill Stream
- Rosa, Woman Walking to the Left
7. Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) Landscape with a Tower and Two Ruined Pillars |
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Landscape with a Tower and Two Ruined Pillars
Etching, 1744-46, 144 x 208 mm., DeVesme 25, P & G 27, Bromberg 28 ii/ii. A fine impression, as usual showing a slight weakness of printing at the tips of the upper left and lower right corners, on laid paper with a fragment of an unidentified watermark and with small margins all around. It took some years before collectors understood that Canaletto’s etchings were not tourists’ vedute (views), but highly imaginative works of art. They are about the play of light (much emphasized since the change in attitude), but there is also an imaginative pictorial idealism about them that proclaims that the scene is not reflective of reality but of something better than reality. In this they are more emotionally moving than many of his paintings.