BERNARDO CANAL | ROME, A VIEW OF THE CAMPIDOGLIO

G. Fiocco, in L. Coletti and T. Spini (eds), Collezione Ottaviano Venier, Bergamo 1954, reproduced (as Bellotto).

The view is based on the drawing by the artist's son, Canaletto, in the Darmstadt Museum.¹ In about 1720 Canaletto painted a large canvas of this view (148 x 200 cm.), which is one of a pair, today in the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.²

Further variants of the design were sold in Rome, Finarte, 15 March 1983, lot 230, (76 x 128 cm., as circle of Bernardo Bellotto), and in Milan, Sotheby's, 8 June 1994, lot 22 (70 x 108 cm., as Jacopo Fabris).³

We are grateful to Charles Beddington for endorsing the attribution on the basis of a digital image.

¹ W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, Canaletto, Oxford 1989, vol. II, p. 561, cat. no. 238(19), reproduced vol. I, plate 132.

² For a full discussion of the Budapest canvases and their dating, see C. Beddington, in A. Bettagno and B.A. Kowalczyck (eds), Canaletto prima maniera, exh. cat., Milan 2001, pp. 54–56, cat. nos 28–29.

³ See D. Succi, in A. Delneri and D. Succi (eds), Da Canaletto a Zuccarelli, il paesaggio veneto del Settecento, exh. cat. Tavagnacco 2003, p. 173.