The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, is an oil painting on canvas by the Venetian painter Canaletto. It is a Rococo landscape painting measuring currently held as part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas. It was a gift from Sarah Campbell Blaffer.

The large church at the left of the painting is the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. A variant of the painting with a larger church tower and an additional building is used as the Venetian screen in the 2001 video game Merchant Prince II.

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

See also

List of works by Canaletto

References

1730 paintings

Paintings of Venice by Canaletto

Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Maritime paintings

Paintings of Venice

Churches in art

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice