View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice

c. 1775-1780

Francesco Guardi

Artist, Venetian, 1712 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50 x 76.8 cm (19 11/16 x 30 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.113

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Achillito Chiesa, Milan, before 1924.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[2] purchased 1932 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to National Gallery of Art, Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1941: 93. Following Chiesa's bankruptcy, his collection was dissolved at several sales in New York and Europe beginning in 1924. See Wesley Towner, The Elegant Auctioneers, New York, 1970: 382-383, 412-414. The painting does not appear in the catalogues of the Chiesa sales at the American Art Association in New York, as implied by Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Antonio Francesco Guardi, 2 vols., Venice [1973-1975]: 1:418.
[2] Morassi [1973]: 418, inserted the Matthiesen Galleries, Berlin, 1930, into the provenance at this point; he was, however, the only source to include Matthiessen and cited no documentation. Kress records list only Contini Bonacossi, from whom the Foundation regularly acquired paintings in this period.
[3] Notations in the Kress records (NGA curatorial files), give the date of acquisition as 1932. Roberto Longhi's expert opinion on the back of a Kress photograph (NGA curatorial files) is dated November 1932. Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection", The Fine Arts 19 (1932): 10, repro. 9, documents the painting in the Kress Collection by December of that year. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2441.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 29, repro., as The Bridge with Three Arches.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice, 1994-1995, no. 213 (London and Washington), no. 83 (Venice), repro.

Bibliography

1932

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection." The Fine Arts 19 (December 1932): 10, repro. p. 9.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 93, no. 224, as View on the Cannareggio, Venice.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 124, as View on the Cannareggio, Venice.

1944

  • Goering, Max. Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944: 51, fig. 98.

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 60, repro.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 148, repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1952

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 3rd edition. Oxford, 1952: 34, pl. 102. (Reprinted 1980)

  • Moschini, Vittorio. Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1952: 22, fig. 142.

  • Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 76, color repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1953

  • Ragghianti, Carlo. "Epiloghi guardeschi." Pisa. Scuola normale superiore. Annali: lettere, storia e filosofia, ser. 2, 22 (1953): 101.

1956

  • Moschini, Vittorio. Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1956: 34, fig. 144.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 259, repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 64, as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1966

  • Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:334, color repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 56, repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 97.

1973

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 171-172, fig. 329.

  • Morassi, Antonio. Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi. 2 vols. Venice, 1973-1975: 1:249, 418, no. 577; 2:fig. 546.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 166, repro., as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:236-237; 2:pl. 159, as View on the Cannaregio, Venice.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 192, repro.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 213, 459, cat. 212, color pl. 316..

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 121-125, repro. 123.

Wikidata ID

Q20178778

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