Bernardo Canal

Art market, Rome, by 1955;

Whence acquired by a private collection;

Thence by descent;

Until sold anonymously, London, Bonhams, 7 December 2011, lot 6 (as attributed to Bernado Canal);

Acquired subsequently by the present owner.

Datable around 1738–40, this relatively rare view by Bernardo Canal is based on an engraving published in 1720 in Domenico Lovisa's Il Gran Teatro della Pitture e della Prospettive di Venezia. Another version of this composition, with slight variations in the boats and staffage, sold at Hampel in 2023 for €181,000.¹ A third version sold at Dorotheum in 2022 for €76,656.²

We are grateful to Dario Succi for endorsing the attribution to Canal on the basis of digital images.

¹ Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 112.5 cm. Munich, Hampel, 28 September 2023, lot 172.

² Oil on canvas, 74 x 112.5 cm. Vienna, Dorotheum, 11 May 2022, lot 126.