Giovanni Battista Cimaroli

Isabella Marchetto, Venice.

L. Magagnato and B. Passamani, Il Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa. Dipinti dal XIV al XX secolo, Vicenza 1978, p. 135;
E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine 1982, p. 541.

The pair of small canvases are lined, the paint surfaces are stable and the varnish clear and even. There are no major damages visible to the naked eye. There is a very slight degree of wear in some of the darker tones and thinner glazes, but overall they appear to be in good overall condition. Inspection under ultra violet light reveals a patch of restoration measuring approximately 3 by 3 cm in the sky above the roof of the palazzo, but otherwise only a handful of scattered minor retouchings. Offered in matching gilt carved wood frames with only a few minor chips and losses.
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Another pair of paintings combining the same views as here is recorded by Spadotto in a private collection.¹ The second view was evidently very popular in Cimaroli's studio, for it exists in several other versions. Close variants were, for example, sold London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2014, lot 246, from the collection of Sir Peter Moores, CBE, DL, and New York, Sotheby's, 21 June 1998, lot 153.

¹ F. Spadotto, Giovan Battista Cimaroli, Rovigo 2011, p. 294, nos 107 and 107a, reproduced.