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

The picture is taken from the same viewpoint, though the staffage is different, as another painting sold in these Rooms, 8 July 2004, lot 183. Both paintings are, in turn, related to a slightly smaller view by the artist in his eponymous series in the Langmatt Foundation, Zurich. This painting, like that sold in 2004, must pre-date 1755; the year in which Giorgio Massari's second attic storey was built onto the Torre dell'Orologio. The "Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views" has recently been identified as Apollonio Domenichini (Venice c.1715-1770), a follower of Luca Carlevarijs and Canaletto whose name appears in the registers of the fraglia (corporation) of Venetian painters in 1757. Domenichini, who was known to his contemporaries as "Menichino", achieved some reputation as a painter of vedute of Venice and its environs.