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Attributed to Antonio Joli (Modena c. 1700-1777 Naples)
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Attributed to Antonio Joli (Modena c. 1700-1777 Naples)

The Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta, Venice, looking south-west from the Torre dell'Orologio, with St. Mark's Cathedral, the Doge's Palace, the Library, the Procuratie Nuove and the Church of San Geminiano

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Attributed to Antonio Joli (Modena c. 1700-1777 Naples)
The Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta, Venice, looking south-west from the Torre dell'Orologio, with St. Mark's Cathedral, the Doge's Palace, the Library, the Procuratie Nuove and the Church of San Geminiano
with inscription 'ANT. CANAL F.' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
inscribed on the reverse 'No 68. Antonio Canaletto. f. 1741. Raccolta di quadri del Signor Marchese Gerini. firenze.'

Marchese Gerini, Florence (according to an inscription on the reverse; possibly the picture listed in the 18th Century Gerini inventory, loc. cit.; perhaps sold in the Gerini sale, Foster, London, 23 November 1836).

Note du spécialiste

This picture is by the same hand as the Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta in a private collection, Paris, attributed to Antonio Joli by Dario Succi in his catalogue of the exhibition Luca Carlevarijs e la veduta veneziana del Settecento (Padua, Palazzo della Ragione, 25 September-26 December 1994, no. 97, illustrated in colour). He considers that picture to be characteristic of the artist's output from his first sojourn in Venice (1732-1742). This dating is supported by the absence of the iron gate at the entrance of the Loggetta, designed by Antonio Gai and installed in 1742. A terminus post quem for this picture can be established by the new pavement of the Piazzetta, designed by Andrea Tirali and finished in 1734.