Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 226. Venice, a view of San Giorgio Maggiore with the Giudecca and the Zitelle.

Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Manner of Francesco Guardi

Venice, a view of San Giorgio Maggiore with the Giudecca and the Zitelle

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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Manner of Francesco Guardi

Venice, a view of San Giorgio Maggiore with the Giudecca and the Zitelle


oil on canvas, unlined

unframed: 55 x 71.8 cm.; 21⅝ x 28¼ in.

framed: 65.3 x 81.4 cm.; 25 6/8 x 32⅛ in.

With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D473), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
L. Daniel, O. Pujmanová, M. Togner, M. Soukup (eds), Italian Painting of the 14th-18th Centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. I, Olomouc 1996, p. 88, no. 39, reproduced (as a copy dating to the 20th century).

This work is a later copy of the prime version by Francesco Guardi in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.1


1 See A. Morassi, Guardi: I Dipinti, Milan 1993, vol. I, p. 391, no. 427, reproduced.