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

Lot 144
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Lot 144 | GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
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$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)

The Rialto Bridge, Venice, from the south with an embarkation, traditionally identified as the Prince of Saxony during his visit to Venice in 1740

oil on canvas

39 x 51 in. (99.1 x 129.5 cm.)





Provenance

Sir Charles Augustin Hanson, 1st Baronet (1846-1922), Lord Mayor of London (1917/18), London, by descent to his grandson,

Sir John Hanson, 3rd Baronet (1919-1996), London; Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 146.

with Walpole Gallery, London, 1988, where acquired by a private collector, by whom sold,

[Property from a Private Collection]; Christie's, New York, 15 May 1996, lot 135.

Private collection, Switzerland.

Acquired by the late owner in 1999.



Literature

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, I, 2nd ed., revised by J.G. Links, Oxford and New York, 1989, pp. xix and lvii-lix, pl. 235; II, p. 733, no. 228*.

P.B. Kerber, Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth Century Europe, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Cleveland, 2017-2018, pp. 47-50, fig. 56.



Exhibited

Portland, Portland Art Museum; Washington, The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, 10 October 2015-21 May 2017, no. 7.



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