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The Property of a Lady
ENGLISH FOLLOWER OF CANALETTO | VENICE, A VIEW OF THE PALAZZO DUCALE FROM THE BACINO, WITH THE BUCINTORO RETURNING TO THE MOLO ON ASCENSION DAY
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July 29, 01:03 PM GMT
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50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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The Property of a Lady
ENGLISH FOLLOWER OF CANALETTO
VENICE, A VIEW OF THE PALAZZO DUCALE FROM THE BACINO, WITH THE BUCINTORO RETURNING TO THE MOLO ON ASCENSION DAY
oil on canvas
unframed: 76.3 x 127.5 cm.; 30 x 50⅛ in.
framed: 101.5 x 152.5 cm.; 40 x 60 in.
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With Maurice Segoura, Paris, from whom acquired.
This composition is based on a design by Canaletto employed in the painting that was formerly with Bellesi, London, in 1940,1 and in an autograph version in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (inv. no. 77, on deposit from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).2 A number of other studio versions also exist.3
The present work emulates the position and formation of the clouds in the Bellesi picture; much of the staffage and the gondolas are also replicated; but the composition as a whole in this painting feels more spacious, with the canal slightly widened and more water visible between the vessels.
1 http://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/scheda/opera/71706/
3 See W.G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, London 1976, vol. II, pp. 361–62, under cat. no. 340.