Lot Essay
This canvas reproduces Canaletto's view of the entrance to the Arsenale, of smaller dimensions, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey (see W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal: 1697-1768, Oxford, 1962, I, pl. 53, fig. 271; II, pp. 324-325, no. 271). Related drawings are at Windsor and in the Lugt collection (see op. cit., II, p. 324, under no. 271).