Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto (1697-1768) and Studio

The Property of the late H. J. JOEL, Sold by Order of the Executors

细节

Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto (1697-1768) and Studio

The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, with the Dogana, S. Maria della Salute and numerous barges and gondolas

24 3/8 x 38 3/8in. (62 x 97.5cm.)

来源

Anon. Sale ('The Property of a Gentleman, removed from his house in Piccadilly'), Robinson and Fisher, London, 27-28 May 1897, lot 79, as
Canaletto (#630 to Colnaghi)
with E. Speelman, London
with F. Partridge, London
In the collection of the late owner by 1962

出版

W. G. Constable, Canaletto, 1962 (and subsequent editions), no.161(a)

拍品专文

Constable, judging from a photograph, describes the present picture as a good studio version of the painting in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen (his no.161 and pl.36); eight other versions are listed as products of Canaletto's school. Constable curiously states that the present picture 'follows the Windsor picture or the Visentini engraving exactly'; there are, in fact, extensive differences in the boats and figures