Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 182
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* The Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views (Apollonio Domenichini) Active in Venice during the second and third quarters of the 18th Century

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Description

  • The Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views (Apollonio Domenichini)
  • View of the Grand Canal looking North from the Rialto; View of the Grand Canal from the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi to San Geremia
  • one inscribed on the reverse Hinc ab aedibus publicis/ Rivoalti  and the other inscribed on the reverse Ab Aedibus hinc Grimanorum illinc Thronorum usque ad/ Coralem Aeglum
  • a pair, both oil on canvas

Provenance

Probably with Spink & Son, London.

Literature

W.G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canale 1697-1768, Oxford 1962, vol. I, p. 300, under cat. no. 233, version f.

Catalogue Note

The present pair of paintings very close to engravings by Visentini (see D. Succi and others, Canaletto & Visentini: Venezia & Londra, Italy 1986, pp. 229/30, illustrated VIII and IX).