Giovanni Bonomi, artist of the present painting, devoted himself mainly to the more colorfully vivid Venetian vedutism, as happens in the present. Oriundo of the lagoon city, Bonomi met national favor by exhibiting in Rome in 1883 with Costumes of 1700; the exhibition experience was then repeated in 1887 at the Venetian national exhibition with Abbey, Wickedness of War and San Marco. The present offers a romantic view of the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge. The genre of Venetian vedutism developed at the beginning of the eighteenth century, in conjunction with the ever increasing influx of those, including foreign scholars and artists, who wanted to bring home a memory of the wonders of the lagoon.