XV - Works On Paper - Marty de Cambiaire (English)

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
Venice 1697 - 1768
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The Coronation of the Doge on the Scala dei Giganti of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Pen and brown ink and three shades of grey wash, heightened with touches of white over black chalk,
within original brown ink framing lines
389 x 554 mm (15 1 /4 x 21 3 /4 in.)
PROVENANCE
Probably commissioned by Lodovico Furlanetto,
Venice; discovered by Sir Richard Colt Hoare,
2nd Baronet, in a bookseller’s in Venice (probably
Furlanetto), circa 1787-89; thence by descent at
Stourhead, Wiltshire to Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare,
5 th Bt (1824-1894); Stourhead Heirlooms sale,
London, Christie’s, 2 June 1883, lot 28, to Grindley,
on behalf of a member of the Hoare family; A.H
Hoare, Ovington Park, Hampshire, and by descent
in the Hoare family until 2005; Private Collection
(in recent years on loan to the Department of Prints
and Drawings, British Museum).
EXHIBITED
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni Veneti
di collezioni inglesi, 1980, catqlogue 111; Venice,
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Canaletto. Disegni-
Dipinti-Incisioni (catalogue by Alessandro
Bettagno), 1982, pp. 51-2, no. 66.
LITERATURE
- For the present work :
Sir R. Colt Hoare, Bart, Modern Wilts – Hundred
of Mere, London 1822, p.75; W.G. Constable &
J.G. Links, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal
(1697-1768), first edition, 1976, p.483, no. 632;
3rd edition, Oxford 1989, vol. II, p. 528, no. 632,
reproduced vol. I, pl. 115.
- For the series of Feste Ducali drawings by Canaletto:
Sir R. Colt Hoare, Modern Wilts – Hundred of Mere,
London, 1822, p. 75; K.T. Parker, The Drawings of
Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the
King at Windsor Castle, Oxford and London, 1948, p.
18; F.J.B. Watson, Canaletto, London, 1949, pp. 20-
1; J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Francesco Guardi,
London, 1951, p. 19; F.J.B. Watson, Catalogue of the
exhibition Eighteenth Century Venice, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London, and Museum and Art Gallery,
Birmingham, 1951, p. 12, under no. 5; V. Moschini,
Canaletto, London and Milan, 1954, pp. 48-50; V.
Moschini, Francesco Guardi, London, 1956, p. 28;
R. Pallucchini, La Pittura Veneziana del Settecento,
Venice and Rome, 1960, p. 111; W.G. Constable,
Canaletto, Oxford, 1962 (and subsequent editions
revised by J.G. Links), I, p. 152, pl. 115; II, nos.
630 and 632; V. Moschini, Canaletto [The Great
Masters of Drawing], Milan, 1963, p. 14 (Italian
ed., Milan, 1978, p. 13); P. Zampetti, Catalogue of
the exhibition I Vedutisti Veneziani del Settecento,
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 10 June – 15 October
1967, p. 180, under no. 83, and p. 182, under no.
84; Catalogue of the exhibition Fantasy and Reality
in Eighteenth Century Venice: An Exhibition of Fine
Venetian Engravings, Thos. Agnew & Sons, London,
19 April – 14 May 1971, under nos. 184 and 186;
P. Rosenberg in the catalogue of the exhibition
Venise au dix-huitième siècle: Peintures, dessins et
gravures des collections françaises, Orangerie des
Tuileries, Paris, 21 September – 29 November 1971,
p. 77; P. Zampetti, A Dictionary of Venetian Painters.
Volume 4. 18 th Century, Leigh-on-Sea, 1971, p.
24; F. Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H.
Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century,
Fig 1 G. B. Brustolon, engraving after Canaletto’s The
Coronation of the Doge on the Scala dei Giganti by Canaletto.
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