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English follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto
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English follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto

Venice, the entrance to the Arsenale

Fermé30 October 2018

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English follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto
Venice, the entrance to the Arsenale
oil on canvas, unframed
27 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (68.9 x 114.8 cm.)

The Right Honourable George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1821-1891), 3 Grafton Street, London, and Brownsea Island, Dorset; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 8-13 July 1891, lot 749, as 'CANALETTO' (27 gns. to Davis).
with Colnaghi, New York, 1983.

Note du spécialiste

This canvas reproduces Canaletto's view of the entrance to the Arsenale, of smaller dimensions, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey (see W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal: 1697-1768, Oxford, 1962, I, pl. 53, fig. 271; II, pp. 324-325, no. 271). Related drawings are at Windsor and in the Lugt collection (see op. cit., II, p. 324, under no. 271).