Follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, 19th Century
Venice, the Piazzetta San Marco looking towards Santa Maria della Salute
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December 15, 12:30 PM GMT
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Follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, 19th Century
Venice, the Piazzetta San Marco looking towards Santa Maria della Salute
oil on canvas
unframed: 59.9 x 49.5 cm.; 23⅝ x 19½ in.
framed: 82.5 x 73.3 cm.; 32½ x 28⅞ in.
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940) (this and the above according to a label on the reverse).
Probably W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, J.G. Links (ed.), Oxford 1976, vol. II, p. 258, no. 148b (as 'a school version').
This work is based on Canaletto's larger canvas of the same view formerly in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.1 A few compositional changes can be seen in this painting, notably in the staffage. This version is probably the one referenced in W.G. Constable's monograph (see Literature) as a school version of the Metropolitan Museum picture and recorded with Legatt Bros, London 1953.
1 W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, J.G. Links (ed.), Oxford 1976, vol. II, p. 257, no. 148; http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/entry/work/71344/Canal%20Giovanni%20Antonio%2C%20Veduta%20di%20Venezia%20con%20l%27ingresso%20al%20Canal%20Grande%20dalla%20Piazzetta
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