Bernardo Bellotto

The Grand Canal, Venice, looking North from the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni to the Palazzo Rezzonico



Bernardo Bellotto - The Grand Canal, Venice, looking North from the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni to the Palazzo Rezzonico



Bernardo Bellotto
The Grand Canal, Venice, looking North from the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni to the Palazzo Rezzonico
60.9 x 92.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2018


Provenance

John Blackwood (c. 1698-1777), Soho Square, London, and by descent through his grand-daughter
Mary Catherine Desaguilliers (c. 1705-c. 1765), and her husband Thomas Cartwright (1735/6-1772) of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, to their son
William Ralph Cartwright (1771-1849), and by descent at Aynhoe Park through
Richard Fairfax William Cartwright (1903-1954), until 1959
with Richard Green, London, 1993, as 'Canaletto', from whom acquired by the following
anonymous sale Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2006, nr. 62 ($1,696,000)
sale Christie's, London, Property from a Private European Collection, 5 July 2018, nr. 43

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