Canaletto

Piazza San Marco, Venice



Canaletto - Piazza San Marco, Venice



Canaletto
Piazza San Marco, Venice
late 1720s
68.6 x 112.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift


Literature

Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 15


Provenance

by descent to W.G. Hoffmann, Berlin, until 1939, sold to Colnaghi
with Colnaghi, London, 1939–40, sold to Barlow
Robert (later Sir Robert) Barlow, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, from 1940
his widow, Lady Barlow, Wendover
by family descent, until 1988, sold to Wengraf
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Alex Wengraf Ltd., London, 1988, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1988.162

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