Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore

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Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore

Artist Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Italian, 1697–1768

Datecirca 1750

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions66 x 45 in. (167.6 x 114.3 cm)
Frame: 72 5/8 x 51 1/2 in. (184.5 x 130.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.149

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ProvenanceThomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904), London; with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; Sir Charles Clow Tennant (later Lord Glenconner),1st Baronet (1823-1906), 1894; [by inheritance to?] his daughter, Emma Alice Margaret (Margot) Asquith [née Tennant], Countess of Oxford and Asquith (1864-1945), London; sold Christie's, London, April 2, 1943, lot 26 [bought by Koetser]; with David M. Koetser, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1952.

Published ReferencesG. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1854), 179 (as Bellotto, being in Mr. Baring's collection). Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook (1889), cat. no. 157, attributed to Canaletto. Christie, Manson, & Woods, Ltd., Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures (from Various Sources) (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson, & Woods, April 2, 1943), lot. no. 26, from the collection of T. Baring, Esq.. W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 179, illus. (b-w). W. G. Constable, Canaletto, Vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), 406, entry 463. Canaletto (exhibition catalogue) (Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1964), cat. no. 109, illus. Ben F. Williams, "A Raleigh Caroline du Nord un des Rares Musees Americains qui ne soient pas dus a l'initiative privee," L'Oeil 155 (November 1967), illus. 9. Giuseppe Berto, L'opera completa del Canaletto (Milano: Rizzoli, 1968),no. 269, pp. 113, 127 illus. no. 269. Stefan Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, Vol. 2 (Greenwich, CT: The New York Graphic Society, 1972), 482, no. Z380. Homan Potterton, Pageant and Panorama: The Elegant World of Canaletto (Oxford: The Phaidon Press, 1978), 74, illus. 75. Terisio Pignatti, Canaletto (Bologna: Casa Editrice Capitol, 1979), 47, illus; same in English edition. Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 218. Andre Corboz, Canaletto: Una Venezia Immaginaria, 2 Vols. (Milano: Alfieri Electra, 1985), Vol. 1, 340, illus. figure 407; Vol. 2, 712, illus. fig. 392. William Barcham, "Two Views by Bernardo Bellotto," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 15, (1991), discussed and illus. (b-w) 19, fig. 8. Nicholas Ross, Canaletto (London: Studio Editions Ltd., 1993), 130, illus. (color). Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 203. J.G. Links, Canaletto (London: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1994), 202, 205, 208, illus. (color) 209. David Steel, entry for Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 143, 147, illus. (color) 147. Dario Camuffo, "Peinture et climat," Pour la Science (Édition français de Scientific American) no. 290 (Decembre 2001), 146-48, illus. (color detail) 147. David Steel, entry for Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 310, illus. (color) 311. Arquitecturas Pintadas (exhibition catalogue) (Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza/Fundación Caja Madrid, 2011), cat. no. 117, illus. (color) 367. Lloyd Dewitt and Corey Piper, Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020), mentioned 148, illus. (color) 149, pl. 22. Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 34.

Exhibition HistoryToronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, "Canaletto;" Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, "Canaletto," October 17, 1964- February 28, 1965, cat. no. 109, illus. Ithaca, NY, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University, "Views of Venice," September 7-October 17, 1971. Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, "Architectural Backgrounds (Arquitecturas Pintadas), October 19, 2011-January 16, 2012, cat. no. 117, illus. (color) 367. Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, “Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals,” October 19, 2019–January 19, 2020, illus. (color) 149, pl. 22. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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