(VENICE 1712 - 1796)
THE GIOVEDì GRASSO FESTIVAL IN THE PIAZZETTA, 1763-66
Etching, partly engraved, from the series of the Feste Ducali, 1763-1766, after Canaletto. A good impression of the fourth and final state, on wove paper with watermark PM. With beautiful antique coloring. See Dario Succi, Da Carlevarijs ai Tiepolo, Incisori veneti e friulani del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Venice 1983; no. 63.
Large margins, minor stains in the margins; to the platemark 447 x 581 mm; the full sheet 573 x 690 mm.
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According to Giannantonio Moschini (1773-1840) Brustolon was a pupil of Giuseppe Wagner and a friend of Pietro Antonio Novelli. He was a sensitive reproductive etcher. His most famous series were: Prospectuum Aedium, viarumque insigniorum urbis Venetiarum ... Tomus Primus, being 12 plates (later increased to 22) copied from Visentini's series after Canaletto, published by Furlanetto in 1763. Le feste Ducali, of 1766 - early 1770s, with 12 plates after Canaletto, also published by Furlanetto.
Brustolo asked a privilege in 1780 for a set after Canaletto's drawn views in Rome.