Sold on Behalf of the Executry of MANON, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE
Francesco Albotto (1721-1757)

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Francesco Albotto (1721-1757)

The Rialto Bridge, Venice, from the South, with the Fondamenta del Vin and the Fondamenta del Ferro and numerous gondolas and barges on the Grand Canal

24 5/8 x 38¾in. (62.5 x 98.4cm.)

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)


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