Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of Max Emden (1874–1940)
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Property from the Collection of Max Emden (1874–1940)
BERNARDO BELLOTTO AND STUDIO
Venice 1721 - 1780 Warsaw
VIENNA, A VIEW OF THE KARLSKIRCHE
oil on canvas
unframed: 48.3 x 79.9 cm.; 19 x 31½ in.
framed: 103.5 x 72.5 cm.; 40¾ x 28½ in.
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Frans Josef Honig (1877–1930), Vienna, by 1926;
With Karl Haberstock, Berlin, by 1929;
With Galerie Caspari, Munich, 1930;
Max Emden (1874–1940), Hamburg, Germany;
With Karl Haberstock, Berlin, by whom acquired from the above on 30 June 1938 (inv. no. 1938/125);
Reichskanzlei, Berlin, acquired from the above June 1938 (Führer inventory 27);
In store, Alt Ausee, Austria (number 1210);
Munich Central Collecting Point (number 1411) January 15, 1946;
Transferred to Ministerpresident, 10 June 1949;
Property of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1966;
Restituted to the heirs of Max Emden, 2019.
H. Tietze, Alt-Wien in Wort und Bild vom Ausgang des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des XVIII Jahrhunderts, Vienna 1926, reproduced pl. 104;
H.A. Fritzsche, Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto, Burg bei Magdeburg 1936, p. 115, no. VG 114 (incorrectly as the Kaunitz Palace in Vienna);
A. Trost, Canaletto's Viennese views, pp. 19 and 23, no. 9, reproduced fig. 9;
H. Aurenhammer, in Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, exh. cat. Vienna, Graz and Salzburg 1956, p. 169, under no. 53, reproduced fig. 12;
H. Sedlmayer, in Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Vienna and Munich 1956, p. 134, reproduced fig. 165;
S. Kozakiewicz, 'An almost unknown painter, Lorenzo Bellotto, son of Bernardo and a series of Bellottian views of Rome', in Venice and Poland in the centuries from the XVII to the XIX, Venice and Rome 1965, p. 98, reproduced fig. 61;
G. Heinz, in Bernardo Bellotto gennant Canaletto, exh. cat. Vienna 1965, p. 59, under no. 46;
K. Haberstock, Hundert Bilder aus der Galerie Haberstock Berlin, Munich 1967, no. 67, reproduced;
S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, London 1972, vol. I, pp. 114 and 127, vol. II, pp. 198, and 200–01, no. 258, reproduced fig. 258;
E. Camesasca, L’opera complete del Bellotto, Milan 1974, p. 124, no. 340A, reproduced (as largely by the Bellotto workshop);
M.J. Knofler, Das Theresianische Wien. Der Alltag in den Bildern Canalettos, Vienna, Cologne and Graz 1979, p. 22, reproduced fig. 3;
A. Rizzi, ‘Promenades bellottiane per Vienna e dintorni’, in Ateneo Veneto, vol. CLXXIX, 1992, pp. 274–75;
A. Rizzi, Bernardo Bellotto. Dresda Vienna Monaco 1747–1766, Venice 1996, p. 104, no. 86 (detail reproduced);
W. Seipel (ed.), Bernardo Bellotto gennant Canaletto. Europäische veduten, exh. cat. Vienna 2005, p. 111, under no. 17, reproduced fig. 1 (as Bellotto).