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Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Palazzo Ducale, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-09) 2
Canaletto, Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century Venetian art (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2018-09-24 - 2019-01-21) 2
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) 2
Hogarth and Europe (Tate Britain, 2021-11-01 - 2022-03-20) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
The Consul Smith Collection - Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (Kimbell Art Museum, 1989-11-11 - 1990-01-21) 2
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 1
The Pageant of Venice : Art and Music in the Golden Age of Serenissima (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2013-10-01 - 2014-01-19) 1
The Pageant of Venice : Art and Music in the Golden Age of Serenissima (Portland Art Museum, 2014-02-22 - 2014-06-08) 1

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Marco Ricci, 1676–1729

Rehearsal of an opera

ca. 1709
On view
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729

Rehearsal of an opera

ca. 1709
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784

A Choral Band

ca. 1777

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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