The prototype, of similar size, is in the Louvre; now generally accepted as the work of Marieschi, it was long regarded as by Canaletto (see, for instance, W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1962, I, pl.37, and II, no.169). It was copied by Bonington c.1823 (Museum of Art, Worcester, Massachusetts) and was one of two 'Canaletti' specifically criticized in his 'determined Depreciation' of the artist by Ruskin, who wrote of it 'A man deserves chastisement for making the truth so contemptible ...A rascally Canaletto'