LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.88 in. (50.50 cm.) (height) by 28.50 in. (72.40 cm.) (width)

Literature:

L. Salerno, I pittori di vedute in Italia (1580-1830), Rome, 1991, p. 214, pl. 62.5, as 'Bernardo Bellotto'. R. Contini, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian Painting, London, 2002, p. 248. B.A. Kowalczyk, Canaletto e Bellotto: L’arte della veduta, exhibition catalogue, Turin, 2008, p. 184, as one of a pair of 'copies after Bellotto..executed in the close circle of the artist’. B.A. Kowalczyk, Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 2014, p. 220, as ‘a copy by Giuseppe Zocchi’. G. Sestieri, Il capriccio architettonico in Italia nel secolo XVII e XVIII, Rome, 2015, III, p. 340, no. 14b.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale [Baron Michel, 4 Connaught Square, London]; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 6 December 1989, lot 5, as one of a pair (£198,000). with Chaucer Fine Art, London, in 1990, as one of a pair by 'Bernardo Bellotto'.