Property from the Grasset Collection
Venice, The Grand Canal, looking north-west, with the Palazzo Pesaro, Palazzo Foscar🦄ini, and the pinnacle of San Stae, to the left, with the Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi and San Marcuola, to the right
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December 7, 07:07 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Grasset Collection
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Venice 1697 - 1768
Venice, The Grand Canal, looking north-west, with the Palazzo Pesaro, Palazzo Foscarini, and the pinnacle of San Stae, to the left, with the Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi and San Marcuola, to the right
oil on canvas
59.7 x 94 cm.; 23½ x 37 in
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格拉塞特典藏
喬瓦尼・安東尼奧・卡納爾 – 或稱卡納萊托
威尼斯,1697 - 1768年
《威尼斯大運河景觀,向西北方眺望,左側為佩薩羅宮、福斯卡里尼宮與聖猶士坦堂🙈前壁尖頂,右側為溫德拉敏宮與聖茂古拉堂》
油彩畫布
59.7 x 94 cm.; 23 ½ x 37 in.
His granddaughter and heiress, Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (1722–1797), wife of Philip Yorke,𒁃 2nd Earl of Hardwicke;
Their daughter, Anabel, Countess de Grey and Baroness Lucas (1750–1833), 4 St. James's Square, London, recorded in the 'Back Room Below' (i.e. Ground Floo♕r) in an inventory with hanging plans,ꦗ no. 11 or 19;
Her nephe🧸w, Thomas Philip, 3rd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham and 5th Baron Lucas (1781–1859), the reverse with a printed label 🎃from his 1834 catalogue, no. 19, 'Canaletto/View of Venice';
His eldest daughter, Anne Flo⛄rence, Baroness Lucas (1806–1880), wife of George Augustus Freder🅘ick, 6th Earl Cowper;
Their son, Francis Thomas, 7th Earl Cowpe♔r, 4th Lord Dingwall, 3rd Baron Butler, and later 7th Baron Lucas of Crudwell (1834–1905);
His nephew, Auberon Thomas Herbe൩rt, 5th Lord Dingwall and 8th Baron Lucas of Crudwell (1876–1916);
By ❀whom sold, London, Christie's, 31 March 1906, lot 19, for 340 Guineas, to Gooden and Fox (according to the Christie's 2003 sale catalogue);
Sir George Leon, 2nd Bt. (1875–19🌺47), and by inheritance to his second wife anღd widow, Anne Dorothy, subsequently Mrs. Thomas Parrington (d. 1963), Chilbolton, Hampshire;
With Ma๊rlborough Fin🐓e Art, New York, stock no. 34911;
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1987;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a European Collection'), London, Christie's, 10 D🐼ecember 2003, lot 51, where offered (est. £3,000,0ꦗ00 – 5,000,000);
Acqui🤪red privately immediately thereafter for the Grasset Collection.
Catalogue of Pictures belonging to Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, at his house in St. James's Square, London 1834, no. 19;
W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, Oxford 1962, vol. I, reproduced pl. 50, a🅠nd vol. II, pp. 290–91 and 606, no. 244; and later editions revised by J.G. Links, Oxford 1976 and 1989, vol. I, reproduced pl. 50, and vol. II, pp. 308–09 and 665, no. 🦩244;
L. Puppi, L'opera completa del Canaletto, Milan 1968, p. 1💫06, no. 178, reproduced (dated to 1740)🌠;
A. Corboz, Canaletto, Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan 19ꦦ84, vol. II, p. 6ꦐ47, no. P 291, reproduced;
D. Succi, in Canaletto & Visentini, Venezia & Londra, exh. cat., Venice 1986, p. 241, under no. 24;
A. Dorigato and D. Succi, in I Rami di Visentini per le Vedute di Venezia del Canaletto, exh. cat., Venice 1990, under no. 22;
J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G.Constable's Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, London 1998, p. 26, no. 244;
B.A. Kowalczyk, Canaletto. Il trionfo della veduta, exh. cat., Milan 2005, p. 274, under no. 75.23;
F.G. Meijer, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat., San Diego 2016, p. 37, no. 35, reproduce🅺d in colour;
S. Thomas, A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. 🐎cat., Saint Petersburg, Florida 2019, pp. 44 and 97, no. 16, reproduced in colour.
Engraved
A. Visentini, Prosepectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum addito Certamine Nautico et Nundinis Venetis: Pictis ab Antonio Canale, in Aedibus Josephi Smith Angli, Delineante atque Incidente, Antonio Visentini, Elegantus recusi, Anno MDCCXLIIꦅ, Venic🏅e 1742 and 1751, II.6 ('Prospectus ab Aedibus Pisanorum ad S. Jeremiam').
Winchester, Winchester College, and Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery, Pictures from Hampshire Houses, 2 July – 17 August 1955, no. 5;
San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, 2 April – 2 August 2016, no. 35;
San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, on loan 2016 – 2019 (when part of the Genre & Myth display, 2017 – 2019);
Saint Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, 23 March – 2 September 2019, no. 16.