Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

His granddaughter and heiress, Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (1722–1797), wife of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke;

Their daughter, Anabel, Countess de Grey and Baroness Lucas (1750–1833), 4 St. James's Square, London, recorded in the 'Back Room Below' (i.e. Ground Floor) in an inventory with hanging plans, no. 11 or 19;

Her nephew, Thomas Philip, 3rd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham and 5th Baron Lucas (1781–1859), the reverse with a printed label from his 1834 catalogue, no. 19, 'Canaletto/View of Venice';

His eldest daughter, Anne Florence, Baroness Lucas (1806–1880), wife of George Augustus Frederick, 6th Earl Cowper;

Their son, Francis Thomas, 7th Earl Cowper, 4th Lord Dingwall, 3rd Baron Butler, and later 7th Baron Lucas of Crudwell (1834–1905);

His nephew, Auberon Thomas Herbert, 5th Lord Dingwall and 8th Baron Lucas of Crudwell (1876–1916);

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 31 March 1906, lot 19, for 340 Guineas, to Gooden and Fox (according to the Christie's 2003 sale catalogue);

Sir George Leon, 2nd Bt. (1875–1947), and by inheritance to his second wife and widow, Anne Dorothy, subsequently Mrs. Thomas Parrington (d. 1963), Chilbolton, Hampshire;

With Marlborough Fine Art, New York, stock no. 34911;

Private collection, Switzerland, by 1987;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a European Collection'), London, Christie's, 10 December 2003, lot 51, where offered (est. £3,000,000 – 5,000,000);

Acquired privately immediately thereafter for the Grasset Collection.

Catalogue of Pictures belonging to Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, at his house in St. James's Square, London 1834, no. 19;

W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, Oxford 1962, vol. I, reproduced pl. 50, and vol. II, pp. 290–91 and 606, no. 244; and later editions revised by J.G. Links, Oxford 1976 and 1989, vol. I, reproduced pl. 50, and vol. II, pp. 308–09 and 665, no. 244;

L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, Milan 1968, p. 106, no. 178, reproduced (dated to 1740);

A. Corboz, Canaletto, Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan 1984, vol. II, p. 647, no. P 291, reproduced;

D. Succi, in Canaletto & Visentini, Venezia & Londra, exh. cat., Venice 1986, p. 241, under no. 24;

A. Dorigato and D. Succi, in I Rami di Visentini per le Vedute di Venezia del Canaletto, exh. cat., Venice 1990, under no. 22;

J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G.Constable's Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, London 1998, p. 26, no. 244;

B.A. Kowalczyk, Canaletto. Il trionfo della veduta, exh. cat., Milan 2005, p. 274, under no. 75.23;

F.G. Meijer, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat., San Diego 2016, p. 37, no. 35, reproduced in colour;

S. Thomas, A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat., Saint Petersburg, Florida 2019, pp. 44 and 97, no. 16, reproduced in colour.

Engraved

A. Visentini, Prosepectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum addito Certamine Nautico et Nundinis Venetis: Pictis ab Antonio Canale, in Aedibus Josephi Smith Angli, Delineante atque Incidente, Antonio Visentini, Elegantus recusi, Anno MDCCXLII, Venice 1742 and 1751, II.6 ('Prospectus ab Aedibus Pisanorum ad S. Jeremiam').