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Property from a Private Collection

Bernardo Bellotto

Rome, a view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine

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July 3, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection


Bernardo Bellotto

Venice 1722–1780 Warsaw

Rome, a view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine


oil on canvas

unframed: 61 x 98.1 cm.; 24 x 38⅝ in.

framed: 86 x 123 cm.; 33⅞ x 48⅜ in.

Private collection, New England;

R. Birkedal, Seekonk, Massachusetts;

T. Gilbert Brouillette (1906–1970), Falmouth, Massachusetts;

Alicia Corchenuk de Buenfil, Mexico City;

With Steven Juvenis and Firestone & Parson, Massachusetts, by 1976;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1990, lot 19 (as Canaletto);

Where acquired by a private collector;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a European Collector'), London, Christie's, 7 July 2004, lot 98 (as Bellotto);

Private collection, by 2008;

With Cesare Lampronti Gallery, London, by 2009 (as Bellotto);

Acquired privately from Hampel, Munich, by the present collector in 2019.

Gorizia, Palazzo della Torre, Le Meraviglie di Venezia, Dipiniti del '700 in collezioni private, 14 March – 27 July 2008, no. 92 (as Bellotto);

Foligno, Palazzo Trinci, Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, 5 June – 2 October 2010, no. B2.22 (as Bellotto);

Munich, Alte Pinakothek, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe, 17 October 2014 – 15 January 2015, no. 21 (as Bellotto).

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, J.G. Links (ed.), Oxford 1976, vol. I, no. 388*, reproduced pl. 206, and vol. II, pp. 393–94, no. 388* (as Canaletto);

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, J.G. Links (ed.), Oxford 1989, vol. I, no. 388*, reproduced pl. 206, and vol. II, pp. 393–94, no. 388* (as Canaletto);

J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable's Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, London 1998, p. 38, no. 388* (as Canaletto);

C. Beddington, in Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, E.P. Bowron (ed.), exh. cat., Venice and Houston 2001, pp. 112 and 114 n. 7, under no. 26 (as Bellotto);

B.A. Kowalczyk, in Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, E.P. Bowron (ed.), exh. cat., Venice and Houston 2001, pp. 136 and 138 n. 13, under no. 35, reproduced p. 136 (as attributed to Bellotto);

D. Succi, in Le Meraviglie di Venezia, Dipinti del ’700 in collezioni private, D. Succi and A. Delneri (eds), exh. cat., Gorizia 2008, pp. 264–65, no. 92, reproduced in colour (as Bellotto);

M. Fagiolo, in Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, M. Fagiolo and M. Tabarrini (eds), exh. cat., Foligno 2010, pp. 52 and 55, reproduced in colour fig. 10 (as Bellotto);

C. Lollobrigida, in Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, M. Fagiolo and M. Tabarrini (eds), exh. cat., Foligno 2010, pp. 190, 300 and 301, no. B2.22, a detail reproduced in colour p. 190 (as Bellotto);

T. Wagner, in Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe, A. Schumacher (ed.), exh. cat., Munich 2014, pp. 192–93, no. 21, reproduced in colour (as Bellotto);

B.A. Kowalczyk, in Bellotto and Canaletto. Wonder and Light, B.A. Kowalczyk (ed.), exh. cat., Milan 2016–17, p. 150, under no. 46 (as Bellotto);

B.A. Kowalczyk, in Canaletto 1697–1768, B.A. Kowalczyk (ed.), exh. cat., Rome 2018, p. 150, under no. 39 (as Bellotto).