Campo San Stin, Venice
Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1740 - 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
622 x 991 mm (24 1/2 x 39 in)
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1421745
Caption
Identified as being by Bellotto by the 2nd Lord Penryhn’s art adviser and later Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Sir William Armstrong, in 1898, it shows a view across the Campo with the church and campanile of San Stin (which is S. Agostino, not S. Stefanin, closed in 1810 and demolished in 1821). It is placed on the far side of the campo, with a palazzo closing the vista on the left, and the Church of the Frari and its campanile in the distance towards the right, with the houses on the right-hand corner of the Campo on the right of the picture.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Campo San Stin, Venice by Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780). A view in Venice in the Sestiere San Polo. A view of the Campo, with the church and campanile of San Stin (which is S. Agostino, not S. Stefanin which was closed in 1810 and demolished in 1821) on the far side of it, with a palazzo closing the vista on the left, and the Church of the Frari and its campanile in the distance towards the right, with the houses on the right-hand side of the Campo on the right of the picture.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Colonel the Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800 – 1886), as a Canaletto; thence by descent; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Penrhyn Castle, 2002.
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: frame marked 'Cannaletti'
Makers and roles
Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768) , artist
References
Penrhyn Castle, Douglas-Pennant 1902 Hon. Alice Douglas-Pennant, Catalogue of the Picture at Penrhyn Castle and Mortimer House in 1901, 1902, no. 32 Constable 1962 W. G. Constable, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Canaletto, OUP, 1962, vol.II, no.286, p.310