Nymphenburg Palace, Munich

c. 1761

Bernardo Bellotto

Painter, Venetian, 1722 - 1780

Italian 18th Century

Painter

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 68.4 x 119.8 cm (26 15/16 x 47 3/16 in.)
    framed: 86.4 x 137.2 x 8.3 cm (34 x 54 x 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.63

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Art market, 1936.[1] Dr. Gustav Mez, Switzerland; (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York);[2] purchased October 1951 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Hellmuth Allwill Fritzsche, Bernardo Bellotto, genannt Canaletto, Burg-bei-Magdeburg, 1936: 116, no. V.120. More probably the early provenance is the same as the companion painting (see NGA 1961.9.64), as was stated in Saemy Rosenberg's letter of 27 September 1951 to the Kress Foundation (copy in NGA curatorial files).
[2] When Rosenberg and Stiebel sold the painting to the Kress Foundation, the provenance was given as "a Swiss private collection" (see the 1951 Rosenberg letter mentioned in note 1). Stefan Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, translated by Mary Whittall, 2 vols., Greenwich, Connecticut, 1972: 2:234, no. 295, identified the collector as Dr. Gustav Mez, who was a German industrialist resident in Switzerland.
[3] The bill of sale is dated and marked paid on 23 October 1951 (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1548).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no. 9.

1991

  • Venedigs Ruhm im Norden, Forum des Landesmuseums Hannover, Hannover; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, 1991-1992, no. 9, repro.

1999

  • The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750, La Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin; Montreal Mus. of Fine Arts; Natl. Gal. of Art, Wash., D.C.; Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 1999-2001, no. 228 (shown Turin, Montreal).

Bibliography

1936

  • Fritzche, Hellmuth Allwill. Bernardo Bellotto, genannt Canaletto. Burg-bei-Magdeburg, 1936: 116, no. VG 120.

1956

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 32, 34, no. 9, repro. 35.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 256, repro.

1965

  • Kozakiewicz, Stefan. "Un pittore quasi sconosciuto, Lorenzo Bellotto, figlio di Bernardo e una serie bellottiana di vedute di Roma." In Venezia e la Polonia nei secoli dal XVII al XIX. Edited by Luigi Cini. Venice, 1965: 98.

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 13.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 6, repro.

1972

  • Kozakiewicz, Stefan. Bernardo Bellotto. Translated by Mary Whittall. 2 vols. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1972: 2:234, no. 295.

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 24.

1973

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 168-169, fig. 321.

1974

  • Camesasca, Ettore. L'opera completa del Bellotto. Milan, 1974: 107, no. 171, pl. 43B.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 24, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:59-60; 2:pl. 34.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 350, no. 489, color repro., as The Castle of Nymphenburg.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 44, repro.

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: 18-22, repro. 21.

1998

  • Rottermund, Andrzej. "Bernardo Bellotto's Unknown View of Munich," Artibus et historiae 38 (1998): 9, 10, fig. 3, 19 n. 4.

Wikidata ID

Q19681641

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