The Molo seen from the Bacino, with the Booths of the Ascension Day Fair and the Bucintoro
manner of Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1755
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
686 x 1080 mm (27 x 42 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Venice
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872113
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Molo seen from the Bacino, with the Booths of the Ascension Day Fair and the Bucintoro, manner of Canaletto (Venice 1697 – Venice 1768), circa 1755. The Piazzetta seen from the Bacino, Venice.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
manner of Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780), artist follower of Michiel Giovanni Marieschi (Venice 1696 – Venice 1743), artist