The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice by Michele Giovanni Marieschi
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The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

Michele Giovanni Marieschi · 1740–41

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Probably Sir William Pilkington, 8th Bt. (died 1850), Butterton Hall and Chevet Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire, from about 1846 [according to letter from Edward Speelman to Daniel Rich, dated May 8, 1946; copy in curatorial file]; by descent in the Pilkington family to Sir Arthur William Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington, 13th Bt. (died 1952), Chevet Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire [according to letter cited above]; sold to Edward Speelman, London, by May 1946 [according to letter cited above, the painting may have had a pendant, now untraced, since a photograph of “A Regatta on the Grand Canal” in the curatorial file is labeled “22 x 33 ½ inches; offer for £1800 – 15 Sept. 1950 by Ed. Speelman Ltd.” and “pendant picture by Marieschi”]; sold to the Art Institute, 1946.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Canaletto: A retrospective exhibition of the work of Canaletto, October 16-November 15, 1964; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, December 4, 1964-January 10, 1965; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 29-February 28, 1965, no. 132.
  • Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum, Circle of Canaletto, February 20-March 21, 1971, no. 34.
  • Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, February 3-April 1, 1973, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, “Dipinti Veneziani a Chicago, Detroit, Toledo e Hartford,” in Arte Veneta 1 (1947), pp. 146-48, fig. 133.
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, pt. 2 (Bologna: Casa Editrice Prof. Riccardo Pàtron, 1951), p. 208.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, “In a Minor Key,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47, 2 (1953), p. 33 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), p. 27.
  • Antonio Morassi, “Circa gli esordi del vedutismo di Francesco Guardi con qualche cenno sul Marieschi,” in Studies in the History of Art: Dedicated to William E. Suida on his eightieth birthday (London: Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1959), pp. 338-344.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 294.
  • Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae (Munich: A. Schroll, 1961), p. 518.
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, “A proposito della mostra Bergamasca del Marieschi,” in Arte Veneta 20 (1966), p. 319, fig. 377.
  • Mercedes Precerutti-Garberi, “Michele Marieschi ed i ‘capricci’ del castello Sforzesco di Milano” in Pantheon 26 (1968), pp. 42, 44, fig. 10.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), p. 120.
  • Ludovico Mucchi and Alberto Bertuzzi, Nella profondità dei dipinti: la radiografia nell’indagine pittorica (Milan: Electa Editrice, 1983), pp. 112, 169, 173, no. M5.
  • Mario Manzelli, “Proposta per l’identificazione di Michele Marieschi e del suo alter-ego Francesco Albotto,” in Arte Veneta 41 (1987), p. 114, no. M9.

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