Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

Jacob Pollackh C.R.F. (inscriptions in red on the reverse: CK [or possibly CH] Collection and CK [or CH] Collection [P]...[C] R.F.);

Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830–1907), Hamburg, by whom brought from Munich in 1878 (as Guardi); as hanging in the picture gallery of the Weber house at An der Alster 59, after its completion in 1889;

By whose estate sold (‘Galerie Weber, Hamburg’), Berlin, Rudolph Lepke, 20–22 February 1912, 2nd day of sale, lots 171 and 172 (as Bellotto), for 6,300 Marks and 6,700 Marks, respectively, to Professor Diez, Dresden;

Private collection, England (according to the Sotheby's 2010 catalogue);

With Francis A. Drey, London (no. 823), by whom sold, 28 April 1950, to Agnew's;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London (nos 14318 and 14319);

From whom purchased by Lady Seymour Lloyd, London, 20 March 1951;

Thence by descent to her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charles Plouviez, London;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 10 April 1987, lot 59, for £154,000 to Agnew's;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by Ann Getty (d. 2020) and Gordon Getty (b. 1930) in 1988;

By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2010, lot 229;

With Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Summer Exhibition, June–July 1950, nos 32 and 34;

King's Lynn, Guildhall of Saint George, Exhibition of Venetian Pictures from the 14th to the 18th Century, 25 July – 8 August 1959, nos 27 and 28;

Paris, Musée Maillol, Canaletto à Venise, 19 September 2012 – 10 February 2013, nos 32 and 33;

Aix-en-Provence, Centre d'Art de l'Hôtel de Caumont, Canaletto. Rome, Londres, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière, 6 May – 13 September 2015, no. 23.

F. von Harck, ‘Quadri di maestri italiani nelle gallerie private di Germania’, in Archivio storico dell'arte, 1891, IV, p. 89 (as Bellotto, 'due eccellenti quadretti');

K. Woermann, Wissenschaftliches Verzeichnis der älteren Gemälde der Galerie Weber in Hamburg, Dresden 1892, pp. 123–24, nos 149 and 150, Weber gallery inventory nos 411 and 412 (as Bellotto);

W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, London 1962 [and subsequent editions, revised by J.G. Links], vol. I, reproduced pls 25 and 36; vol. II, pp. 221 and 261, nos 75 and 157 (incorrectly as on panel);

L. Puppi, L'Opera completa del Canaletto, Milan 1968, nos 188 and 189A, reproduced;

S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, London 1972, vol. II, p. 420, no. Z113 (as whereabouts and appearance unknown);

J.G. Links, Canaletto. The Complete Paintings, London 1981, p. 30, under no. 74;

A. Corboz, Canaletto: Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan 1985, vol. II, p. 649, nos P 303 and P 304, reproduced;

R. Merrington, in Agnew's 1982–1992, London 1992, p. 84, reproduced in color;

J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable's Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, London 1997, p. 9, no. 75;

C. Schmincke, Sammler in Hamburg. Der Kaufmann und Kunstfreund Konsul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830–1907), PhD. Diss., Hamburg 2004, pp. 165 and 192, reproduced on p. 164, fig. 12, as hanging in the picture gallery of the Weber house at An der Alster 59 in 1912;

F. Fruttero, in A. Scarpa (ed.), Canaletto à Venise, exh. cat., Paris 2012, p. 125, nos 32 and 33, reproduced in colour pp. 124 and 126–27;

B.A. Kowalczyk, Canaletto. Rome, Londres, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière, exh. cat., Brussels 2015, pp. 121–23 and 209–10, no. 23, reproduced in colour p. 120.