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GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)

Lot 24
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 5 000 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838963
Lot 24 | GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 000 – 7 000 000
GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)

The Piazza San Marco, Venice, looking east towards the basilica

oil on canvas

24 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. (62.2 x 95.3 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) Marshall Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Palazzo Loredan, Venice; sale, Christie’s, London, 13 April 1775, lot 49 or 50.

John Christopher Cankrien, Hull; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 June 1853, lot 67 (as ‘an important work of high quality’).

Henry Farrer, London (acquired at the above sale).

The Reverend Frederick Leicester; sale, Christie’s, London, 19 May 1860, lot 155 (as ‘A work of the most brilliant quality’).

Henry Farrer, London (acquired at the above sale).

Col. the Hon. Edward Douglas Pennant, later 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandygai, Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, North Wales (by 1860).

Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn (by descent from the above).

Lady Janet Douglas Pennant (by descent from the above).

Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, August 2009); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 2014, lot 11.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

(Probably) G. Redford, Art Sales, vol. II, London, 1888, pp. 221-222.

A. Douglas Pennant, Catalogue of the Pictures at Penrhyn Castle and Mortimer House in 1901, Bangor, 1902, no. 76.

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1962, vol. II, p. 188, no. 9 (with incorrect provenance: incorrectly said to have been in the Higginson collection at Saltmarshe and offered Christie's, London, 4-6 June 1846).

L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, Milan, 1968, p. 97, no. 84D.

G. Berto, Canaletto, Milan, 1981, no. 84d.

A. Corboz, Canaletto. una Venezia immaginaria, Milan, 1985, vol. II, p. 626, no. P 199 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, no. 830.



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Artist:Canaletto (1697 - 1768)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Rococo
Genre:Veduta
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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