Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Antonio Canal called Canaletto
Venice 1697 - 1768
Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge
oil on canvas
canvas: 18 ⅜ by 30 ⅛ in.; 46.7 by 76.5 cm
framed: 24 ⅜ by 36 ⅜ in.; 61.9 by 92.4 cm
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota;
By whom consigned on commission with Julius Böhler, Munich, 1929;
By whom sold to Galería Federico C. Müller, Buenos Aires, 1932;
From whom acquired by the Herlitzka collection;
Thence by descent until sold ("Property of a Family Collection"), Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1998, lot 95;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
Exposición de Grandes Maestros Antiguos, exhibition catalogue, Buenos Aires 1931, n.p., cat. no. 7, reproduced;
S. Ambrosini, Encuentros y Coincidencias, exhibition catalogue, Buenos Aires 1967, n.p., cat. no. 45;
J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable's Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, London 1998, p. 23, cat. no. 227**, reproduced pl. 258;
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. 132-133, 176, cat. no. 31, reproduced.
Buenos Aires, Galería Federico C. Müller in collaboration with Julius Böhler, Exposición de Grandes Maestros Antiguos, July 1931, no. 7;
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Barcos, Cielo, Tierra y Agua, 20 - 31 May 1961;
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Encuentros y Coincidencias, 9 August - September 1967, no. 45;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bellini to Tiepolo, July - September 1994;
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. 31.
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