Canaletto Prints
Explore Canaletto prints depicting the canals, palaces and public squares of eighteenth-century Venice, alongside views of London and the English countryside. From the Grand Canal and Piazza San Marco to the Thames at Westminster, his paintings combine architectural detail with boats, crowds and changing light.
Discover expansive waterfront scenes, quieter corners of Venice and imagined architectural landscapes. Choose from unframed prints, framed prints and canvas options to suit your space.
Canaletto’s Venice: canals, palaces and public squares
Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697–1768), known as Canaletto, painted Venice through its waterways, buildings and daily activity. His views follow the Grand Canal between rows of palaces, look across the Bacino di San Marco and explore the open spaces around St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace. Gondoliers, merchants and people crossing the squares give each scene details to discover beyond its famous landmarks.
The collection includes busy waterfronts, quieter canals and ceremonial scenes showing the Bucintoro surrounded by boats on Ascension Day. To explore these places through other artists and historic maps, browse our Venice wall art collection.
London, the Thames and views beyond Venice
Canaletto’s English paintings bring his interest in architecture and perspective to the Thames, bridges and London’s public spaces. Views from Somerset House place boats across a broad stretch of river, while buildings and riverside terraces establish the city’s eighteenth-century setting. Walton Bridge offers a different balance, combining an intricate wooden structure with trees, grassy banks and a wide sky.
Works depicting Padua and Rome extend the architectural subjects further. These paintings can be explored alongside the landscapes, city views and historic scenes in our Old Masters prints collection.
Detailed views and imagined architecture
Canaletto is associated with vedute: carefully composed views of recognisable places. Repeated windows, receding façades and the curve of a canal guide the eye through his paintings. Areas of shade beneath arcades contrast with sunlit stonework, while reflections and passing boats interrupt the ordered lines of the buildings.
His capricci take a different approach, bringing churches, columns, gateways and ruins together in imagined settings. The architectural detail remains central, but these compositions offer invented landscapes rather than straightforward records of a particular viewpoint.
Venice through other artists’ eyes
For another approach to Venetian architecture and water, explore our John Singer Sargent prints, including canal scenes and gondola moorings. His freer brushwork offers a useful comparison with Canaletto’s carefully defined façades and spacious views.
Our Raoul Dufy prints include later interpretations of Venice, using fluid lines and broad areas of colour. Together with the wider Venice collection, these works offer several ways to explore the same city across different periods and styles.
Choosing a Canaletto print
Wide lagoon and river views give prominence to water and sky, while canal scenes bring palace façades and passing boats closer. Piazza paintings emphasise perspective and public life; capricci place individual buildings and monuments within more unusual settings. Consider which of these subjects appeals to you, then choose a size and framing option that allows its details to be appreciated.
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Featured Canaletto Prints
Canaletto Print, A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon
€31,95
Canaletto Print, Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice (1730s)
€35,95
Canaletto Print, Le Grand Canal, vu du pont du Rialto (The Grand Canal Seen from the Rialto Bridge) (1725)
€35,95
Canaletto Print, The Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge, Venice (1728-1732)
€35,95
