BERNARDO BELLOTTO | ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH A PALACE BESIDE A MOAT AND FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND

Frits Lugt, Amsterdam;

With van Dieman & Co., Inc., Berlin, 1927;

Private collection, Germany, 1927;

With Vitale Bloch, Berlin, 1930;

Fritz Haussmann, Berlin and New York, by 1935;

With Jacob M. Heimann, New York;

From whom acquired by Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam (probably after 1943);

By whom gifted to the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, 1949 (inv. no. 1949.68).

(Selected Literature)

C.F. Weise, ed., Neue Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften und freien Künste, Leipzig 1766, p. 158;

H. Posse, "Eine Architekturphantasie Bernardo Bellottos über den Dresdener Zwinger," in Pantheon, vol. V, 1930, pp. 166-167, reproduced;

G. Delogu, "Berlino: Pittura italiana del '700 nella collezione Haussmann," in Emporium, LXXXII, 1935, pp. 327-333, reproduced;

H.A. Fritzsche, Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto, Burg bei Magdeburg 1936, pp. 99-100, 123-124, no. VG 179, reproduced fig. 72;

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue, San Diego 1960, p. 78;

S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, London 1972, vol. I, p. 138, vol. II, pp. 284, 287, cat. no. 359, reproduced p. 285;

B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings, Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 24;

E. Camesasca L'Opera completa del Bellotto, Milan 1974, p. 110-111, cat. no. 202, reproduced;

W.L. Barcham, The Imaginary View Scenes of Antonio Canaletto, London 1977, pp. 199-200, 327, reproduced fig. 201;

A. Rizzi, Bernardo Bellotto. Dresda, Vienna, Monaco (1747-1766), Venice 1996, p. 162, cat. no. 143, reproduced;

E.P. Bowron, Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2001, pp. 240-241, cat. no. 82, reproduced;

J. Marciari, Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings before 1850 in the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego 2015, pp. 292-295, cat. no. 65, reproduced.