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19TH CENTURY ENGLISH FOLLOWER OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO | Venice, the entrance to the Grand Canal, looking west

Auction Closed

December 5, 12:50 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

19TH CENTURY ENGLISH FOLLOWER OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO

Venice, the entrance to the Grand Canal, looking west


oil on canvas

76 x 127 cm.; 29⅞ x 50 in.

A derivation after Canaletto's original smaller canvas in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.1


1 47.5 x 79.5 cm.; see W.G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, London 1962 (and subsequent editions revised by J.G. Links), vol. II, pp. 262–63, cat. no. 164, reproduced vol. I, pl. 36, fig. 164.