- Inscription
- Provenance
- Exhibition History
- Bibliography
Overview
No overview.
Inscription
verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 2, and at lower right: 27-20 [?]/12 [encircled]
Marks and Labels
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Provenance
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Stourhead, Wiltshire. (sale, Christie's London, 2 June 1883, no. 32); Davis; Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore. (sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1974, no. 10). Robert H. Smith, Arlington. (John and Paul Herring & Co., New York); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1967
- I vedutisti veneziani del settecento, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1967, no. 83.
- 1982
- Canaletto. Disegni, Dipinti, Incisioni, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1982, 52, no. 70.
- 1989
- Canaletto, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, 348-350, no. 122.
- 1994
- The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, NGA; 1994 - 1995, 244-245, 440, no. 151.
- 1995
- Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 44.
- 1996
- Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 44.
- 2011
- Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 57.
Bibliography
- 1822
- Colt Hoare, Sir Richard. History of Modern Wiltshire. London, 1822: 75-76, no. 7.
- 1949
- Watson, F. J. B. Canaletto. London, 1949: 20, fig. 29.
- 1954
- Moschini, Vittorio. Canaletto. Milan, 1954: 48-50, fig. 275.
- 1962
- Constable, William George. Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768. 2 vols. Oxford, 1962, 1: pl. 116; 2: 485, no. 636.
- 1963
- Moschini, Vittorio. Canaletto: A Note. Milan, 1963: 21, no. 68.
- 1965
- Zampetti, Pietro, ed. Mostra dei Guardi. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1965: 202, under no. 104.
- 1969
- Moschini, Vittorio. Drawings by Canaletto. Milan, 1969: 21, no. 68.
- 1975
- Pignatti, Teresio. "Le feste Ducale. Canaletto, Brustolon, Guardi" Critica d'arte 21 (40), n.s., fasc. 144 (November-December 1975): 42, 54, 56, 67 (no. 7).
- 1982
- Links, J. G. Canaletto. Oxford, 1982: 212, pl. 2.
- 1983
- Da Carlevarijs ai Tiepolo, Incisori veneti e friuliani del Settecento. Musei provinciali, Palazzo Attems, Gorizia, and Museo Correr, Venice. Venice, 1983: 90 (under no. 63).
- 1993
- Visentini, Margherita Azzi. "Feste," in exh. cat. Francesco Guardi. Veduti, Capricci, Feste. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Milan, 1993: 177, 179.
- 2001
- Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 108 and fig. 3.
- 2010
- Sale catalogue Important Old Master Paintings. Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2010, 212, under no. 228.
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