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Francesco Guardi

Main Salon in the Ridotto, Venice, ca. 1765

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Description

Maker

  • Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793, Italian

Title

Main Salon in the Ridotto, Venice

Year

ca. 1765

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

31.4 x 51.1 cm (12 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf

Object Number

24.508

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Cape-able Clothing

September 16 - December 31, 1983

European Galleries

In Venice in the 1700s, a ridotto could refer to a gathering place where business and politics were discussed or a foyer where theatergoers played games of chance at intermission. This painting depicts the city’s primary ridotto pubblico, a public gaming house in a wing of Palazzo Dandolo. Venetian citizens and foreign visitors gambled, flirted, and mingled freely there, often disguising their identities. Illuminated by flickering chandeliers, women hid their faces behind small black oval masks, while men in tricorne hats found anonymity in black hooded cloaks and white masks called bautte.

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