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Michele Marieschi (1710-1744)

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Michele Marieschi (1710-1744)

The Doge's Palace, the Piazzetta and the Prisons, Venice, from the Bacino di San Marco, S. Maria della Salute beyond

21 7/8 x 33½in. (55.5 x 85cm.)

Lot Essay

Three versions, with different boats, figures and clouds and of narrower format, are published by R. Toledano, Michele Marieschi, 1988, pp.70-1, nos.V.5.1-3, all illustrated. Toledano's no.V.5.2, which was with the Richard Green Gallery in 1977 (Annual Exhibition of Old Masters, no.37), is reproduced in colour by D. Succi in the catalogue of the exhibition, Marieschi tra Canaletto e Guardi, Castello di Gorizia, 1989, p.137, fig.149. Marieschi also executed an etching of the view (Toledano, op. cit., no.V.5.4; Succi, op. cit., p.272, no.7)

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