Pietro Bellotti (Venice 1725-before 1818 Toulouse?)

A night festival at San Pietro di Castello, Venice

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Pietro Bellotti (Venice 1725-before 1818 Toulouse?)
A night festival at San Pietro di Castello, Venice
oil on canvas
23¾ x 31 3/8 in. (60.3 x 79.7 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) with Art Antique Galleries, New York, from whom acquired by
Mr. Oswald Frei, Lake Mohawk, New Jersey, and by descent to the present owner.

Sale room notice

Please note that the attribution for this painting should read, Follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

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Lot Essay

The composition depicting the festival of S. Pietro relates to Canaletto's painting on loan to the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (see W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1976, II, no. 359). The variations to the boats and figures align with an etching by Giambattista Brustolon (1712-1796; see D. Succi et al., Da Carlevarijs ai Tiepolo: Incisori veneti e fruilani del Settecento, exh. cat., Venice, 1983, no. 55).

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