The Doge's Palace and Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice
Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1730
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
597 x 1016 mm (23 1/2 x 40 in)
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1298196
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Doge's Palace and Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, by Canaletto (Venice 1697 – Venice 1768), 1730. Painted for Samuel Hill (Samuel Egerton's uncle) in 1730. A view looking eastward along the Riva degli Schiavoni; the column of Saint Mark is at the left and the Ponte della Paglia is visible between the Doge's Palace and the Prisons. Further along is the high, uncompleted façade of the church of the Pietà, and beyond that are the dome and campanile of San Pietro di Castello. This and NT 1298203 (TAT/P/40) must be the two paintings by Canaletto referred to by Joseph Smith and Samuel Egerton in letters written to Samuel Hill from Venice in 1730. They were completed by the end of December and despatched to London in February 1731. Samuel Hill, who was in the habit of buying pictures through Consul Smith, was uncle and guardian to Samuel Egerton and it was through him that his nephew was apprenticed to Smith in 1729. Samuel Egerton outlived his elder brother, inheriting his uncle’s estates, and the pictures were transferred to the family seat of Tatton Park.
Provenance
The commission was negotiated by Consul Joseph Smith for his friend Samuel Hill and to his nephew Samuel Egerton; thence by descent; bequeathed by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874 - 1958) to the National Trust with the house, gardens and contents of Tatton Park
Credit line
Tatton Park, The Egerton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
CANALETTO (inscription on plaque at base of frame)
Makers and roles
Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768) , artist
Exhibition history
The Treasure Houses of Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 1985 - 1986, no.167 Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.16
References
Constable and Links 1976 W. G. Constable and J. G. Links (revised), Canaletto 1697 - 1768, 2 vols. Oxford, 1976, no. 111
