
The Piazzetta di San Marco, Venice, during Carnival with elegant figures promenading while a ciarlatano touts his wares outside the Doge's Palace
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Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Bid
7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Johann Josef Karl Henrici
Schweidnitz, Silesia 1737–1823 Bolzano
The Piazzetta di San Marco, Venice, during Carnival with elegant figures promenading while a ciarlatano touts his wares outside the Doge's Palace
monogrammed on the stone slab: CH; the cross-like symbol possibly denoting a date
oil on canvas
unframed: 68.6 x 91.5 cm.; 27 x 36 in.
framed: 80.3 x 103 cm.; 31⅝ x 40½ in.
Private collection, Munich;
Whence sold, Munich, Neumeister, 14 April 2021, lot 80 (as attributed to Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Venice – Comedians in the Piazzetta), for €20,320;
Where acquired by the present owners.
U. Pietsch, Preziosen einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, Munich 2001, pp. 162–63, reproduced in colour (as unknown artist, The wedding of Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) and Louis XVI (1754–1793), 1770).
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