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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY MAX EMDEN (1874–1940)

BERNARDO BELLOTTO | DRESDEN, A VIEW OF THE MOAT OF THE ZWINGER

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection formed by Max Emden (1874–1940)

BERNARDO BELLOTTO

Venice 1722 - 1780 Warsaw

DRESDEN, A VIEW OF THE MOAT OF THE ZWINGER


oil on canvas

48.3 by 80.4 cm.; 19 by 31⅝ in.

Please note that this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid. Please refer to the printed catalogue for information on irrevocable bids.

Private collection of the Duke of Saxe-Anhalt until 1925

With Galerie Bachstitz, Berlin, 1928

With Arthur Tooth, London

Max Emden, Hamburg, Germany

With Karl Haberstock, Berlin, acquired 30 June 1938 (inventory no. 1938/125)

Reichskanzlei, Berlin, acquired June 1938 (Führer inventory 115)

In store, Alt Ausee, Austria (number 1447)

Munich Central Collecting Point (number 1648), 15 January 1946

Treuhandverwaltung für Kulturgut, Munich

Office of the Federal President, Bonn, on loan since 1961

Restituted to the heirs of Max Emden, 2019

Der Cicerone, XX, 12, June 1928, p. 417, reproduced p. 415

H. Voss, ‘Painter of Dresden’, International Studio, XCI, 379, December 1928, p. 38, reproduced (incorrectly captioned as in the Dresden Gallery)

H.A. Fritzsche, Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto, Burg b. Magdeburg 1936, no. VG 58, pp. 53 and 110, reproduced fig. 61

K. Haberstock, Hundert Bilder aus der Galerie Haberstock Berlin, Munich 1967, no. 65, reproduced

S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, Greenwich 1972, vol. II, p. 128, no. 159, reproduced p. 126

Kunst in Venedig 16.– 18. Jahrhundert: Gemälde und Zeichnungen, F. Lachenal (ed.), exh. cat., Museum Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim am Rhein, 1987, no. 110

A. Rizzi, Bernardo Bellotto: Dresda, Vienna, Monaco, Venice 1996, p. 42, no. 17

E. Camesasca, L’opera completa del Bellotto, Milan 1974, p. 100, no. 106 and under no. 104, reproduced p. 99

G. Marini in The Glory of Venice, Art in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Haven and London 1994, p. 429, under no. 255


ETCHED

Bernardo Bellotto, View of the Zwinger Canal, 1758; from a series of etched views of Dresden, Plate 53.1 x 83.8 cm. First state, caption in the lower margin: Vüe laterale des Galleries du Zwinger, – avec le Pont, qui degage vers l’Allée – /d’Ostra et vers la Porte de Wilsdruff, – prise d’une des Serres de l’Orangerie Roïale. /Peint et gravé par Berd: Bellotto dit Canaletto Peiñ. R. – 1758