Lot Essay
Drawings from a comparable viewpoint are in the Ashmolean Museum and in a private collection, Paris, A. Morassi, Guardi-I Disegni, Venice, 1984, nos. 356-7, figs. 358-9. Guardi painted a number of pictures of this view, the closest of which is at Houston, A. Morassi, L'Opera Completa di Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice, 1973, I, no. 299, illustrated