LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (height) by 31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (width)

Condition:

framed

Provenance:

with Cesare Lampronti, Rome, ,1986 (as Bernardo Bellotto, 27 March 1986), We are grateful to Charles Beddington for suggesting the attribution and for his help in cataloguing the present painting., ,Tironi was primarily known as a draughtsman as twenty-four drawings by him of islands in the Venetian Lagoon were engraved by Antonio Sandi and published as a set after 1779 (see D. Succi, Pordenone 2004, pp. 5-18)., Several paintings signed with the initials ‘F T’ have significantly helped to establish him as a distinctive figure who may have been a studio assistant of Canaletto, ,before being influenced by Francesco Guardi (see C. Beddington, National Gallery, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010-11, pp. 130-1). Tironi’s paintings are rare and the present is a significant example and an important addition to his oeuvre. Another version of this composition of similar size (56.2 x 79.3 cm) was at Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 2010, as lot 227 (sold for € 272.897)., To the right of the composition it is possible to see the Campo della Pescaria, and behind that the elegant curve of Jacopo Sansovino’s Fabbriche Nuove, which was designed in 1554. On the left side, the most prominent building is the Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne., The present composition is loosely based on Antonio Visentini’s engraving, plate 7 in part II of the 1742 edition of his Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum, ,after a painting by Canaletto which is now in an Italian private collection (see W. G. Constable, Oxford 1962, I, pl. 50; II, no. 241