ID 819797
Lot 14 | GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 000 – 10 000 000
Venice, the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute
oil on canvas
52 1/2 x 65 3/8 in. (133.4 x 165.4 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by William Holbech (c. 1699-1771) and installed in the dining room at Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire, and by descent to his nephew,
William Holbech, M.P. (d. 1812), and by descent to his son,
William Holbech (1774-1856), and by descent to his son,
Ven. Charles William Holbech (1816-1901), honorary Canon of Worcester and Archdeacon of Coventry, and by descent to his grandson,
William Hugh Holbech (1882-1914), and by descent to his brother,
Ronald Herbert Acland Holbech (1887-1956), and by whom sold to the following,
with Savile Gallery, London.
with Tomás Harris, London, by 1932.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, by 1939.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1979.
with Dino Fabbri, New York, 1987.
with Harari & Johns, Ltd., until January 1987,
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
G. Nares, ‘Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire, II’, Country Life, 18 February 1954, pp. 430-3.
W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, I, Oxford, 1962, p. 117, note 3, pl. 38; II, pp. 256-7, no. 173; 2nd edition, II, revised by J.G. Links, Oxford, 1976, p. 270; 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Links, and with a supplement, II, Oxford, 1989, pp. 270 and 731.
L. Puppi, Opera completa di Canaletto, Milan, 1968, p. 104, no. 151, illustrated, dated to 1735-1737.
E. Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England 1737-1837, II, London, 1970, p. 179
G. Jackson-Stops, Farnborough Hall, London, 1981 and subsequent editions, p. 14.
A. Corboz, Canaletto, Una Venezia immaginaria, II, Milan, 1985, p. 640, no. P 267, illustrated.
M. Laskin, Jr. and M. Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada Ottowa: European and American Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts , I, Ottowa, 1987, p. 49.
J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable’s Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, London, 1997, p. 18.
D.R. Marshall, 'Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall,' Art Bulletin of Victoria, XLV, 2005, published online.
C. Beddington, Canaletto in England, A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2006-7, p. 164, under no. 55, fig. 55.1.
D.R. Marshall, 'Revisiting Canaletto and Panini at Farnborough Hall', NGV Art Journal, VL, 2014, published online.
Exhibited
London, Savile Gallery, 1930, no. 6.
London, Tomás Harris, An Exhibition of Painting by Venetian Artists 16th and 18th centuries, June-July 1932, no. 5.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Old Masters: including important paintings by Guardi and Canaletto, November- December 1944, no. 3.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth-Century Venice, 3 January-14 March 1951; 21 March-18 April 1951, no. 9.
Munich, Mu¨nchen Residenz, Europa¨isches rokoko, 15 June-15 September 1958, no. 23.
London, Thomas Agnews & Sons, Old Master Paintings: Recent Aquistions, 7 June -27 July, 1979, no. 21, illustrated (frontispiece).
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Canaletto: disegni, dipinti, incisioni, 1982, no. 93 (entry by J.G. Links).
Artist: | Canaletto (1697 - 1768) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Genre: | Cityscape, Veduta |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Canaletto (1697 - 1768) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Genre: | Cityscape, Veduta |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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