The Bacino, Venice, with the Dogana and a Distant View of the Isola di San Giorgio

The Bacino with the Dogana and San Giorgio at the Metropolitan Museum, painted in 1709, captures Venice's great basin from a vantage near the Molo. The Dogana and distant San Giorgio Maggiore create the iconic Venetian vista. Carlevarijs documented Venice in oil on canvas with architectural precision drawn partly from his own engravings, staffing his panoramic views with animated crowds of merchants, tourists, and gondoliers rendered in small, fluid strokes.

The Dogana's triangular prow provides a compositional anchor in the foreground, with San Giorgio's classical facade visible across the basin. The water surface captures complex reflections.