THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto (1697-1768)
Details
Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto (1697-1768)
The Molo, Venice, from the Bacino di S. Marco with the Doges' Palace, the Piazzetta, the Library, the Campanile and the Prisons
18 7/8 x 33 5/8in. (48 x 85.5cm.)
The Molo, Venice, from the Bacino di S. Marco with the Doges' Palace, the Piazzetta, the Library, the Campanile and the Prisons
18 7/8 x 33 5/8in. (48 x 85.5cm.)
Provenance
The Marchese Ridolfi, near Pisa, from whom purchased in Florence for 600 dollars some days before 10 February 1838 by Andrew Wilson on behalf of an ancestor of the present owner
Literature
W. G. Constable, Canaletto, 2nd ed., revised by J. G. Links, Oxford, 1989, II, p.729, no.106*
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Works by the Old Masters, Jan.-March 1883, no.277