Search results

Start typing

Details of gondola on a Venice canal
This exhibition is in the past. View our current exhibitions.
CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-VENICE 1768)

The Benavides garden, Padua with a classical arch and a statue of Hercules

c.1742-5

RCIN 907563

The drawing shows the garden of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Mantova Benavides in Padua. A well-dressed visitor to the garden is dwarfed by Bartolomeo Ammanati’s marble sculpture of Hercules. Canaletto (or Joseph Smith) apparently found the statue too dominant, as the sheet was cut into two pieces and the rejected part placed in another volume in Smith’s library.

    The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.