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After Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
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Description
- Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
- venice, the entrance to the grand canal looking west;venice, the rio dei mendicanti and the scuola di san marco
- a pair, both oil on canvas
Provenance
Acquired by the late owner from Frost and Reed, London (as Luca Carlevarijs), in the late 1950s.
Catalogue Note
These paintings are copies, datable to circa 1900, after designs by Canaletto. The former is based upon the artist's painting, of similar dimensions, now in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (see W.G. Constable & J. G. Links, Canaletto, rev. ed., Oxford 1989, vol. II, pp. 262-3, no. 161, reproduced plate 36) which was engraved (in the same sense) by Visentini in 1735. The latter is based upon a painting of slightly smaller dimensions variously given to Canaletto or to his nephew Bernardo Bellotto, now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice (op. cit., p. 332, no. 291, reproduced plate 56).