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Pietro Bellotti (Venice 1725-before 1818 Toulouse?)
Lot 59

Pietro Bellotti (Venice 1725-before 1818 Toulouse?)

A night festival at San Pietro di Castello, Venice

Closed4 June 2014

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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.)

(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.

Specialist note

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).