JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)

Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
ID 1239218
Lot 25 | JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)
JOHANN RICHTER (STOCKHOLM 1665-1745 VENICE)
Venice, the Piazzetta looking north-west towards the Campanile, with the Biblioteca, the Procuratie Vecchie and the Torre dell'Orologio
oil on canvas
48 1/8 x 63 ½ in. (122.3 x 161.3 cm.)




Provenance

Annie Cottenet Schermerhorn (1857-1926), wife of John Innes Kane (1850-1913), by whom bequeathed to the following in 1926,
The Cooper Union Museum (now the Cooper Hewitt Museum), New York, by whom sold,
Anonymous sale [The Property of an American Institution]; Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1969, lot 22, as 'Luca Carlevarijs' (£12,000 to Marshall).
with Colnaghi, London, 1974.
Private collection, Switzerland, by June 1978.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1980, lot 130, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 24 May 1991, lot 73, as 'Luca Carlevarijs', when acquired for £451,000 by,
J.E. Safra (b. 1940); Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2017, lot 22, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

R. Pallucchini, 'Due Vedute del Carlevarijs', Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Vittorio Viale, Turin, 1967, pp. 52-56, fig. 3, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
A. Rizzi, Luca Carlevarijs, Venice, 1967, pp. 63 and 92, fig. 154, as 'Luca Carlevarijs' with unspecified collaborator.
R. Pallucchini, 'Schede Venete Settecentesche', Arte Veneta, XXV, 1971, pp. 163-164, note 20, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
E. Martini, La Pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 489, under note 116, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
I. Reale, 'Gio. Richter, svezzese, scolare di Luca Carlevariis', Luca Carlevarijs e la veduta veneziana del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1994, pp. 118, 120 and 126, notes 15, 17 and 24, fig. 11.
R. Pallucchini, ed., La pittura nel Veneto. Il Settecento, I, Milan, 1994, p. 188, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.



Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Canaletto, 17 October 1964-28 February 1965, no. 130, as 'Luca Carlevarijs' (cat. by W.G. Constable).
Pfäffikon, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum and Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Art vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, 18 June-5 November 1978, no. 159, as 'Luca Carlevarijs'.
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