LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash
Measurements:
12.28 in. (31.20 cm.) (height) by 10.20 in. (25.90 cm.) (width)
Markings:
inscribed in pen and brown ink below the pen borderline: Giesuiti in Venezia
Exhibited:
Gainesville, Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,. et al ., . Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz , 1991-93, no. 31;. Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, . The Golden Age of Architectural Graphic Art Drawings by European Masters of the 18th -19th Centuries from the Sergei Tchoban Collection , 2010, no. 11;. Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, . Only Italy! Architectural Graphic Art of the 18th-21st Centuries , 2014, p.72, no. 3
Literature:
W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, . Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768 , Oxford 1989, vol. II, p. 326, under no. 276;. K. Baetjer and J.G. Links, . Canaletto , exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, p. 318, under cat. no. 106, note 2;. J.G. Links,. A Supplement to W.G. Constable's Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768 , London 1997, p. 28, under no. 276 and p. 51, no. 603**, reproduced pl. 239
Provenance:
Pierre Jean Mariette (L.2097);. his sale, Paris, Basan, 15 November 1775, part of lot 274 (. 'La Vue de la Place des Jésuites à Venise, où s'y voit lattéralement, ornée de plusiers figures à la plume, & lavée d'encre de la Chine' ), to Randon de Boisset;. William Esdaile (L.2617),. his sale, London, Christie's, 19 June 1840, lot 451;. Dr. Henry Wellesley (L.1384);. his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 June 1866, lot 684;. Thomas Poynder, Hartham Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire;. by descent to his nephew, Sir John Dickson-Poynder, later Lord Islington;. thence by descent;. sale, London, Christie's, 13 December 1984, lot 75,. where purchased by Jeffrey E Horvitz,. his sale, New York, Sotheby's, The Jeffrey E. Horvtiz Collection, 23 January 2008, lot 93,. where acquired by the present owner