GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, IL CANALETTO* (1697-1768)

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GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, IL CANALETTO* (1697-1768)

A Capriccio of a Bridge leading to a Fortress by the Venetian Lagoon

oil on canvas
11 3/8 x 16¼in. (29 x 41.3cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, March 19, 1920, lot 79, as 'B. Canaletto - An Island near Venice, with bridge, buildings and figures' (unsold); reoffered, Feb. 24, 1922, lot 141, as 'Belotto - An Island near Venice' (21gns. to Maynard)
Dr. J. Seymour Maynard, 16 Prince Edward Mansions, Pembridge Square, London; (+) Christie's, London, Jan. 29, 1954, lot 46 (320gns. to Speelman)
with Francesco Genova, Venice

Literature

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, 1962 (and subsequent editions), I, pl. 89; II, no. 481
L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, 1968, no. 327, illustrated
C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I, Before 1800, 1973, p. 53
J.G. Links, Canaletto. The Complete Paintings, 1981, p. 84, no. 282, illustrated
A. Corboz, Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria, 1985, II, p. 741, no. P 455, illustrated

Lot Essay

For a related drawing, presumably a study for the present work, see Constable, op. cit., no. 793, pl. 149. J.G. Links, loc. cit., dates the present painting 'after 1755'. A capriccio with a similar composition is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; this is datable to the 1740s (Kauffmann, op. cit., pp. 53-4, no. 54, illustrated; Links, op. cit., p. 54, no. 166, illustrated; Corboz, op. cit., II, p. 648, no. P 298, illustrated)