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The Grand Canal at the [Rio di] Ca’ Foscari
The Grand Canal at the [Rio di] Ca’ Foscari

The Grand Canal at the [Rio di] Ca’ Foscari

Artist Michele Marieschi Italian, Venetian School, 1710–1743
Datecirca 1740–1743
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/4 x 37 7/8 in. (61.6 x 96.2 cm)
Frame: 30 1/2 x 44 1/8 in. (77.5 x 112.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.59
On View
On view
ProvenanceSir Edward Cripps, Fountain House, Park Lane, London; sold Christie's, London, July 15, 1955, lot 71 [to Cevat]; with David M. Koetser, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1957; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published References"Registrar's Report of New Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no 1 (Summer 1958), listed 43. The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 120, illus. (b-w) 121. R. Palluchini, "A Proposito della Mostra bergamesca del Marieschi," Arte veneta 20 (1966), 317. Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 70, illus. (color) 71. The Circle of Canaletto (exhibition catalogue) (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1971), cat. no. 33, illus. Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings From the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII, Vol. 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 1973), 169-70, illus. fig. 326 (K2180). 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) 215. Ralph Toledano, Michele Marieschi: L'opera completa (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1988), 107, illus. V.29.2. Dario Succi, et al, Marieschi tra Canaletto e Guardi (exhibition catalogue) (Castello di Gorizia, 1989), 157, 160, illus. fig. 183. Mario Manzelli, Michele Marieschi: e il suo alter-ego Francesco Albotto (Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell' Universita di Venezia: [1991?]), 58, cat. no. M.21.2, illus. Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 199. Federico Montecuccoli degli Erri and Filippo Pedrocco, Michele Marieschi: La vita, l'ambiente, l'opera (Milan: Bocca Editori, 1999), 375, illus. (color) 374-75.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 70, illus. (color) 71. Allentown, PA, "The Circle of Canaletto," February 21-March 21, 1971, cat. no. 33. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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