English follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto

Venice, the entrance to the Arsenale

Details

English follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto
Venice, the entrance to the Arsenale
oil on canvas, unframed
27 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (68.9 x 114.8 cm.)

Provenance

The Right Honourable George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1821-1891), 3 Grafton Street, London, and Brownsea Island, Dorset; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 8-13 July 1891, lot 749, as 'CANALETTO' (27 gns. to Davis).
with Colnaghi, New York, 1983.

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).

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