Lot Essay
Other versions by Albotto, with different boats and figures, are in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (L. Salerno, I Pittori di Vedute in Italia (1580-1830), Rome, 1991, p.210, fig.61.1, colour; D. Succi, catalogue of the exhibition, Marieschi tra Canaletto e Guardi, Castello di Gorizia, 30 June-15 Oct. 1989, p.195, fig.239, and p.213, fig.266) and in a Venetian private collection (ibid., p.176, fig.206, colour, and p.261, no.43); another was sold at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1991, lot 15. The composition was clearly inspired by Albotto's wife's first husband, Michele Marieschi, whose picture in the Bristol City Art Gallery is one of his few signed works (ibid., p.196, figs.240-1; R. Toledano, Michele Marieschi, Milan, 1988, p.79, no.V.9.1, illustrated, and p.26, fig.11). A painting sold in these Rooms on 8 July 1988, lot 115, is attributed to Marieschi by Toledano (op. cit., p.80, no.V.9.2, illustrated) and to Albotto by Succi (op. cit., pp.183, 195 and 197 and p.192, fig.235)