Important Old Master Paintings Including European Works of Art

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Lot 87
  • 87

Giuseppe Canella

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Giuseppe Canella
  • A view of Calle Atocha, Madrid; A possible view of Paseo del Prado, with the Cibeles fountain beyond, Madrid
  • the former signed lower left Canella
    the latter signed lower right Canella
  • a pair, both oil on metal

Provenance

Collection of the Duchess of Berry, no. 277 and no. 283, according to an inscription on a board stuck to the metal on reverse: Galerie de S.A.R.Mme / Ducse. de BERRY. (Numbered over in blue paint).

Catalogue Note

Canella travelled to Spain in the early 1820s, and then settled in France from 1823 to 1833, where he exhibited at the Salons of 1826 and 1827. He then returned to Italy, first to Milan, and became a professor at the Academy of Venice.  He was best known as a miniaturist painter of towns and animated streets incorporating topographical elements. Canella's works are typically crowded with groups of people mixing elegant bourgeoisie with figures from the working-class.

A number of Canella's dated Madrid views were executed in the year 1823, right before he moved to Paris. Another version of the Calle Atocha composition was sold at Christie's, London, 26 January 2001, lot 62.

This pair of paintings is sold in what appear to be their original frames made by the framemaker Adolf Giroux.