ID 838939
Lot 55 | GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South-East from San Stae to the Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto
oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 30 5/8 in. (47 x 77.8 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Joseph Smith, later British Consul, Venice.
Daniel H. Farr, Philadelphia.
Alfred Pillsbury, Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis.
Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York (by 1957).
Acquired in 1959 for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Castagnola, Switzerland.
Private collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above, circa 1980); sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 1997, lot 120.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1962, vol. II, pp. 290-291 and 606, no. 246(a) (as 'certainly by Canaletto' and datable to '1730 or a little earlier').
L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, Milan, 1968, no. 120B.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Castagnola, 1969, vol. I, p. 56, no. 52 and vol. II, p. 274.
J.G. Links, Views of Venice by Canaletto engraved by Antonio Visentini, Toronto and London, 1971, p. 52.
J.G. Links, Canaletto: The Complete Paintings, St. Albans, 1981, p. 44, under no. 120.
E. Martini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Udine, 1982, p. 81 (illustrated in color, pl. XX).
A. Corboz, Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan, 1985, vol. II, p. 632, no. P 226.
D. Succi, ed., Canaletto & Visentini: Venezia & Londra, exh. cat., Venice, 1986-1987, pp. 47 and 240, under no. 23 (illustrated, p. 47, fig. 28; where Visentini’s print is erroneously said to be after the Harvey painting (entry by D. Succi)).
A.B. Kowalczyk and M. Da Cortà Fumei, eds., Bernardo Bellotto 1722-1780, exh. cat., Venice and Houston, 2001, p. 78, under no. 11 (entry by C. Beddington).
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Collectie Thyssen-Bornemisza (Schloss Rohoncz): 110 Meesterwerken europese Schilderkunst van de XIVe-XVIIIe eeuw, November 1959-January 1960, no. 98.
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza: 110 Meisterwerke der europäischen Malerei des 14. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts, January-March 1960, no. 98.
Pfäffikon, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum and Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Art Vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, June-November 1978, p. 180, no. 160 (illustrated, p. 39; detail illustrated in color, pl. IX).
Seattle, Experience Music Project, DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006-January 2007.
Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, no. 6 (illustrated in color).
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Artist: | Canaletto (1697 - 1768) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Rococo |
Genre: | Veduta |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Canaletto (1697 - 1768) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Rococo |
Genre: | Veduta |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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