Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1721-1780 Warsaw)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION ■9 BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW) View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi oil on canvas 52q x 92q in. (133.3 x 234.8 cm.) painted in 1745-47 £12,000,000-18,000,000 US$18,000,000-26,000,000 €14,000,000-21,000,000 PROVENANCE: LITERATURE: Anonymous sale ‘lately consigned from abroad’; Christie’s, 30 March [=2nd M. Chamot, ‘Baroque Paintings’, Country Life, LX, 6 November 1926, p. 708. day] 1771, lot 55, as 'Canaletti', 'its companion [lot 54; A large and most capital A. Oswald, ‘North Mymms Park, II’, Country Life, LXXV, 20 January 1934, picture, being a remarkable view of the city of Verona, on the banks of the pp. 70-1, fig. 13. Adige. This picture is finely coloured, the perspective, its light and shadow S. Kozakiewicz, in Bernardo Bellotto 1720-1780, Paintings and Drawings from fine and uncommonly high finish’d’; 250 guineas to Grey] exhibiting another the National Museum of Warsaw, exhibition catalogue, London, Whitechapel view of the same city, equally fine, clear and transparent’, the measurements Art Gallery, Liverpool, York and Rotterdam (catalogue in Dutch), 1957, p. 25, recorded as 53 by 90 inches (250 guineas to ‘Fleming’, ie. the following). under no. 32. Gilbert Fane Fleming (1724-1776), Marylebone; Christie’s, London, 22 May W. Schumann and S. Kozakiewicz, in Bernardo Bellotto, genannt Canaletto 1777, as ‘Canaletti. A view of the city of Verona, esteemed the chef d’œuvre of in Dresden und Warschau, exhibition catalogue, Dresden, 1963, respectively the master’ (205 guineas to ‘Ld Cadogan’, i.e.
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