專家說明
A preparatory study for the picture of the same subject formerly in the collection of Lord Trent.
The view is taken from the West with the Porta Portello, now the Porta Venezia, in the centre and, in the distance, the church of the Carmine. Constable who knew the drawing only from a photograph considered it to be 'perhaps a copy by Ballotto'. Canaletto's prime original is in the Albertina (Constable-Links, no. 676), this was followed rather closely in a picture now at Washington (Constable-Links, no. 676). The present drawing has been associated with a variant of the Washington picture first recorded in the collection of Lord Trent which was sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1972, lot 98, see Constable-Links, under no. 375
The view is taken from the West with the Porta Portello, now the Porta Venezia, in the centre and, in the distance, the church of the Carmine. Constable who knew the drawing only from a photograph considered it to be 'perhaps a copy by Ballotto'. Canaletto's prime original is in the Albertina (Constable-Links, no. 676), this was followed rather closely in a picture now at Washington (Constable-Links, no. 676). The present drawing has been associated with a variant of the Washington picture first recorded in the collection of Lord Trent which was sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1972, lot 98, see Constable-Links, under no. 375