Lot 31
31
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
Hendrik Frans van Lint, called Monsù Studio (1684-1763)

Details
Hendrik Frans van Lint, called Monsù Studio (1684-1763)

The Bacino di S. Marco, Venice, with Masqueraders and Gentry on the Isola di S. Giorgio in the Foreground, S. Maria della Salute and the Piazzetta beyond

signed and dated 'HF.van Lint . al . studio . pi 17(2?)3' (HF in monogram)

22 5/8 x 43 3/8in. (57.6 x 110.2cm.)
Provenance
Major General Sir Claud Alexander, Ballochmyle House, Mauchline;
Sotheby's, 17 Dec. 1947, lot 46
with Leonard Koetser, London, 1948
Literature
A. Zwollo, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, 1973, p.178 and pl.226
A. Busiri Vici, Peter, Hendrik e Giacomo Van Lint, 1987, p.156, fig.180

Lot Essay

Very few paintings of Venice by Van Lint are known, only four others being reproduced by Busiri Vici (op. cit., figs.181-3 and 185). Two of these are dated 1723, which suggests that the indistinct third digit of the date on the present picture is indeed a '2'

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