View of the Courtyard of the Doge's Palace, Venice
Michiel Giovanni Marieschi (Venice 1696 – Venice 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1736 - 1743
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1510 x 2100 x 180 mm; 61 kg (Weight)
Place of origin
Venice
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771301
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of the Courtyard of the Doge's Palace, Venice by Michiel Giovanni Marieschi (Venice 1696 – Venice 1743). View of the courtyard within a series of grand buildings, in the distance can be seen the domes of St Marks, the buildings on the right rise above a two tier colonade with classical detailing mirroring the Library in the Piazza nearby, and the building to the left is of an earlier period.This varies the view found in one of Marieschi's set of engravings of Venice published in 1741, and is a composition that he painted more than once on this scale. The first was probably the picture painted for Field-Marshal von der Schulenburg in 1736, but in view of the difference in quality between both the present picture and the version sold from the Bromley-Davenport collection at Capesthorne in 1976, and the Rialto Bridge with the festive entry of the Patriarch, it is unlikely that either can be identified with that picture, despite the last record of it being its sale at Christie's in 1775. Instead, one or other of the two must be identifiable with the painting of the same subject and size that was sold at Christie's as a fresh importation in 1771.
Provenance
Possibly in the Catalogue of a most capital and Valuable Collection of Pictures (lately consigned from abroad) [incl. 7 Romanelli cartoons for Barberini tapestries of Dido and Aeneas, but also the two fake Bellottos of Verona by Marlow], Christie's 28th & 30th March 1771, 1st day as lot 60: "MARIESCHI The inside view of the grand court of the palace of St. Mark .... &c.", 47" x 69" (sold for ,136.10.0) [but this could equally well have been the version from Capesthorne Hall, sold by William Bromley-Davenport Esq., ? Sotheby's/Christie's, 2 July 1976, lot 34, col.pl. - but p/c on file says lot 45?]; Mr R.C.A. Palmer-Morewood (1879 -1957), Alfreton Hall, Derbyshire; on loan to the National Trust 1981; transferred to the National Trust through HM Treasury, 1983 (with Wright of Derby portraits.)
Makers and roles
Michiel Giovanni Marieschi (Venice 1696 – Venice 1743), publisher