Property from an Important European Noble Collection
Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli
Venice, a view of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore from the Bacino
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December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
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150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Property from an Important European Noble Collection
Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli
Amersfoort 1652/3–1736 Rome
Venice, a view of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore from the Bacino
dated lower right, on the ship: 1701
inscribed lower left with an inventory number: 0
oil on canvas
unframed: 42.5 x 74 cm.; 16¾ x 29⅛ in.
framed: 52.1 x 83.5 cm.; 20½ x 32⅞ in.
Almost certainly commissioned by Don Luis Francisco de la Cerda Fernández de Córdova Folch de Cardona y Aragón (1660–1711), ninth Duke of Medinaceli;
Thence almost certainly by descent to Don Nicolás Fernández de Córdoba y de la Cerda (1682–1739), tenth Duke of Medinaceli, listed in his palace in Priego, Cordoba, by 1711;
Thence by family descent to Don Carlos María Fernández de Córdoba y Pérez de Barradas (1864 - 1931), second Duke of Denia and Tarifa (son of the 15th Duke of Medinaceli);
Thence by inheritance to his wife, Doña María de los Ángeles de Medina y Garvey (1864–1933), and thence by direct family inheritance;
Seized from Núñez de Balboa, 31, Madrid, March 1938 by the Republican Ministry of Finance (inventory 304) and transferred to the Monastery of Pedralbes, Barcelona, where recovered by Francoist forces January 1939;
Thence by inheritance in the family to the present collectors (direct inheritance from the ninth Duke of Medinaceli to the present day).
Inventario general de todos los trastos y vienes muebles pertenecientes a la Cassa del Exmo. Sr. Marques [de Priego] Duque de Medinazeli, mi Señor, Ms. in the Archivio Ducal de Medinaceli, Seville 1711, possibly nos. 191, 192, or 202;
V. Lléo Cañal, V., ‘The art collection of the ninth Duke of Medinaceli’, in The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, no. 1031, February 1989, pp. 109–10, 115, possibly nos. 191, 192, or 202;
C. Trupiano Kowalczyk, 'Due “Marine bislunghe” di Gaspar van Wittel. Inedite vedute di Venezia,' in Arte Veneta, 76, 2019, pp. 222–4, reproduced figs 9–10.
