Lot 70
70
The Property of THE 9TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S PICTURE CHARITY
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Provenance
Acquired by Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 9th Earl of Lincoln (1720-1794)
and by descent
Offered by the Earl of Lincoln in these Rooms, 31 March 1939, lot 5
Literature
Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, etc., at Clumber House, [1914], 1923, no.15
W. G. Constable, Canaletto, 1962 (and subsequent editions), II, no.28, 'Rubbed, with some architectural detail obliterated, and certain of the figures semi-transparent'
L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, 1968, no.85B
Exhibited
(Presumably) London, British Institution, 1853, among nos.98, 103, 113 and 118 (all described as 'View of Venice' and lent by the Duke of Newcastle)
London, British Institution, 1858, no.157 or 187 (both views of 'St. Mark's Square, Venice' lent by the Duke of Newcastle)
Nottingham Castle, Midland Counties Art Museum, on loan before 1939

Lot Essay

One of four paintings attributed to Canaletto acquired by the 2nd Duke of Newcastle and recorded in the catalogue made on his death in 1794 (see Catalogue of the Pictures being part of the Clumber Collection, 1872, introduction). The two smaller of these, regarded by Constable as studio works, form a pair of views on the Grand Canal (Constable, op. cit., nos.170.b.3 and 228.b.1). The larger two, accepted as autograph, are not a pair but are of identical size, the present picture depicting the Piazza San Marco and the other, now in the Norton Simon Museum, the Piazzetta (idem, no.66). Both are versions of smaller pictures in the series at Woburn Abbey

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