Obraz Canaletta warty rozważenia przez prawdziwego polskiego kolekcjonera ewentualnie rozważnego inwestora. Nie jest to co prawda widok Warszawy lecz widok Colosseum; więzi mistrza z Polską są oczywiste.

Lot 26. Bernardo Bellotto Venice 1722 – 1780 Warsaw. Rome, a view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine, oil on canvas, canvas: 24 by 38 ⅝ in.; 61.0 by 98.1 cm. framed: 33 ⅞ by 48 ⅜ in.; 86.0 by 124.1 cm. Estimate $700,000 – 900,000. Sotheby’s. 05/25/23. Not soled.

Provenance:

Private collection, New England; R. Birkedal, Seekonk, Massachusetts; T. Gilbert Brouillette (1906-1970), Falmouth, Massachusetts; Mme. Alicia Corchenuk de Buenfil, Mexico City; With Steven Juvenis and Firestone & Parson, Massachusetts, by 1989; Anonymous sale (“Property of a Gentleman”), London, Sotheby’s, 4 July 1990, lot 19 (as Canaletto); Where acquired by a private collector; Anonymous sale (“Property of a European Collector”), London, Christie’s, 7 July 2004, lot 98 (as Bellotto); Private collection, by 2008 With Galleria Cesare Lampronti, London, by 2009 (as Bellotto); Acquired privately from Hampel, Munich, by the present collector, 2019.

Literature:

W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, J.G. Links (ed.), Oxford 1989, vol. I, cat. no. 388*, illustrated pl. 206; vol. II, pp. 393-394, cat. no. 388* (as Canaletto);

J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable’s Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, London 1998, p. 38, cat. no. 388* (as Canaletto);

C. Beddington, in Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, exhibition catalogue, E.P. Bowron (ed.), New Haven and London 2001, p. 114 note 7, under cat. no. 26 (as Bellotto)

B.A. Kowalczyk, in Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe, exhibition catalogue, E.P. Bowron (ed.), New Haven and London 2001, pp. 136-138, under cat. no. 35, reproduced p. 136 (as attributed to Bellotto);

D. Succi, in Le Meraviglie di Venezia, Dipinti del ‘700 in collezioni private, exhibition catalogue, D. Succi and A. Delneri (eds.), Venice 2008, pp. 264-265, cat. no. 92, reproduced in color (as Bellotto);

C. Lollobrigada, in Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, exhibition catalogue, M. Fagiolo and M. Tabarrini (eds.), Perugia 2010, pp. 300-301, cat. no. B2.22;

T. Wagner, in Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe, exhibition catalogue, A. Schumacher (ed.), Munich 2014, p. 192, cat. no. 192, reproduced in color (as Bellotto).

Milan, Palazzo della Torre, Le Meraviglie di Venezia, Dipiniti del ‘700 in collezioni private, 14 March – 27 July 2008, no. 92;

Foligno, Palazzo Trinci, Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, 5 June – 2 October 2010, no. B2.22;

Munich, Alte Pinakothek, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europea, 17 October 2014 – 15 January 2015, no. 21.

Exhibited:

Milan, Palazzo della Torre, Le Meraviglie di Venezia, Dipiniti del ‘700 in collezioni private, 14 March – 27 July 2008, no. 92;

Foligno, Palazzo Trinci, Giuseppe Piermarini, tra barocco e neoclassico, Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Foligno, 5 June – 2 October 2010, no. B2.22;

Munich, Alte Pinakothek, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europea, 17 October 2014 – 15 January 2015, no. 21.