Francesco Guardi

Donald Alexander Smith (1820-1914), 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal;

Thence by descent to Donald Sterling Palmer Howard (1891-1959), 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal;

Thence by descent and inheritance Mr. and Mrs. Michael Leslie Ogilvie Faber, until 1985;

With Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York;

From whom acquired by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1985;

By whom sold ("Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 1998, lot 64;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

A. Morassi, "Novità su Francesco Guardi," in Arte Veneta 13-14 (1959-1960) pp. 164-165, reproduced fig. 220;

A. Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice 1973, vol. I, p. 428, cat. no. 631; vol. II, reproduced fig. 600;

L.R. Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, Milan 1974, p. 109, cat. no. 336, reproduced;

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 44;

R. Evren, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 132-136, 177, cat. no. 33, reproduced.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 33.