Canaletto
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right
1730s47 × 77.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Provenance
With Joseph Smith, Venice
?Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Langley Park, Slough, Buckinghamshire, until died 1758
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, Langley Park, 1758?–88; sold to Harvey
Robert Bateson-Harvey, later Sir Robert Bateson-Harvey, 1st Baronet, Langley Park, 1788–died 1825
by descent to Sir Robert Grenville Harvey, 2nd Baronet, Langley Park, 1887–died 1931
trustees of his estate, 1931–c. 1957
on loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1936–38
on loan to the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1938–c. 1957
with Colnaghi, London, until 1965; sold to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1965–his d. 1986; cat., 1973, nr. 4
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1986–died 2019; cat., 2005, nr. 18
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