GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO | VENICE, A VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL LOOKING NORTH TOWARDS THE RIALTO BRIDGE

Henry Labouchere, First Baron Taunton (1798 – 1869), Over Stowey, Somerset;

Sir John Beale;

D.O. Beale, 1968;

J.H. Taylor;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 12 July 1972, lot 15 (for £35,000 to Duits);

With Duits, Ltd., London;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;

There acquired, 1980s.

A. Corboz, Canaletto: una Venezia immaginaria, Venice 1985, vol. 2, p. 627, no. P204, reproduced;

W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697 – 1768, 2^nd ed., vol. 2, Oxford 1989, p. 295, cat. no. 227d, reproduced vol. 1, plate 199.