
The Terrace
Follower of Canaletto · c. 1745
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably Sir Charles Turner, London, by 1908; his sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, November 17, 1908, no. 4, as Bernardo Belotto. Possibly A. S. Drey, Munich [according to Constable and Links 1976]. Antonio Dal Zotto (died 1918), Venice [according to Paris 1928 when the picture and its pendant, 1957.48, were lent by Federico Gentili di Giuseppe]. Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, Paris, (died 1940), by 1917 [see Oulmont 1917]; by descent to his daughter Adriana Salem, Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 1952 [according to Kleinberger stock card in European Painting Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the painting was on loan to the Fogg Museum of Art from 1952–54]; by descent to her son, Daniel Salem, Paris [according to stock card referenced above]; sold to F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, 1956 [according to stock card referenced above and a letter from Harry G. Sperling to Daniel Catton Rich dated November 1, 1956 in curatorial file]; purchased by the Art Institute from F. Kleinberger & Co. with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells (died 1977), who maintained a partial life interest in the picture.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie d’Art Sambon, Exposition des paysagistes vénitiens et français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, June 5–July 5, 1928, no cat. no.
- Auckland City Art Gallery, Canaletto: Master of Venice, April 9–June 1, 1986, no cat no.; traveled to National Gallery of Art, Wellington, June 19–July 31, 1986; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, August 14–September 25, 1986.
Literature
Published references
- Giulio Ferrari, Les deux Canaletto: Antonio Canal, Bernardo Bellotto, peintres (Turin, 1914), p. 26, pl. 50.
- Charles Oulmont, “Collection M.-F. Gentili di Giuseppe,” Les Arts no. 162 (1917), pp. 13, 18–19, ill.
- Hellmuth Allwill Fritzsche, Bernardo Belotto, gennant Canaletto (Burg bei Magdeburg, 1936), p. 105, no. 10.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini and G. F. Guarnati, Les eaux-fortes de Canaletto (Venice, 1945), p. 34, under no. 18.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Report of the Director: Annual Report 1956–1957,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 3 (September 1957), p. 52.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 65.
- W. G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, vol. 2 (Oxford, 1962), p. 411, no. 469 b or e.
- Stefan Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, genannt Canaletto, vol. 2 (Recklinghausen, 1972), p. 487, no. Z402.
- Ettore Camesasca, L’opera completa del Bellotto (Milan, 1974), pp. 122–23, no. 323 A, ill.
- W. G. Constable and J. G. Links, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, vol. 2 (Oxford, 1976), p. 443, no. 469; reprinted (Oxford, 1989).
- John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 44.
- New York Graphic Society, Fine Art Collections (Greenwich, Connecticut, 1986), p. 165, ill.
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