BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)
BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)
BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)
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PROPERTY OF THE HEIRS OF DANIËL GEORGE VAN BEUNINGEN (1877-1955) (LOTS 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19)
BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)

The Fishermen’s Village at Pirna

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BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)
The Fishermen’s Village at Pirna
oil on canvas
19 ¼ x 31 5⁄8 in. (48.9 x 80.4 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Herdtle und Peters, Stuttgart, 28-29 April 1870, lot 129, with erroneous dimensions.
Jacob Klein, Frankfurt am Main; his sale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 31 October 1911, lot 4.
Stefan von Auspitz (1869-1945), Vienna, by whom consigned in 1931 to the following,
with K.W. Bachstitz, The Hague, where acquired in 1932 by,
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, and by descent.
Literature
Jahrbuch der Bilder- u. Kunstblätterpreise: Band 2. 1911., Vienna, 1912, p. 25.
Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto in Dresden und Warschau, exhibition catalogue, 1963, Dresden, p. 87, no. 24c.
S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, Recklinghausen and London, 1972, II, pp. 172 and 174, no. 218, illustrated.
E. Camesasca, L'opera completa del Bellotto, Milan, 1974, pp. 102 and 103, no. 136, illustrated.
A. Rizzi, Bernardo Bellotto: Dresda Vienna Monaco, Venice, 1996, p. 76, no. 55.
W. Schmidt, Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto in Pirna und auf der Festung Königstein, Pirna, 2000, p. 86.
D. Succi, Bernardo Bellotto: il Canaletto delle corti europee, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano, 2011-12, p. 147.
J. Giltaij, D.G. 50 jaar Van Beuningen 1958-2008, online, 2012, accessed 13 May 2025, p. 41.
Exhibited
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, An exhibition of the Von Auspitz Collection of Old Masters by courtesy of Herr Walter Bachstitz, November-December 1932, no. 25.
Dresden, Albertinum, Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto in Dresden und Warschau, 8 December 1963-31 August 1964, no. 24c.
Venice, Museo Correr; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, 2001, no. 71 (entry by Gregor J.M. Weber).

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