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Canal

Giovanni Antonio, called Canaletto

Venice 1697 — 1768

The Coronation of the Doge on the Scala dei Giganti

Pen and brown ink and three shades of grey wash,
heightened with touches of white over black chalk,
within original brown ink framing lines.
389 x 554 mm. (15 ¹/₄ x 21 ³/₄ in.)

Provenance

Probably commissioned by Lodovico Furlanetto, Venice; discovered by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2^nd Baronet, in a bookseller’s in Venice probably from Furlanetto, circa 1787-89; thence by descent at Stourhead, Wiltshire to Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5^th Bt (1824-1894); Stourhead Heirlooms sale, London, Christie’s, 2 June 1883, lot 28, to Grindley, on behalf of a member of the Hoare family; A.H Hoare, Ovington Park, Hampshire, and by descent in the Hoare family until 2005; Private Collection (in recent years on loan to the Dept of Prints and Drawings, British Museum)

Exhibition

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni Veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, cat.111; Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Canaletto. Disegni-Dipinti-Incisioni (catalogue by Alessandro Bettagno), 1982, pp. 51-2, no. 66

Bibliography

Sir R. Colt Hoare, Bart, Modern Wilts – Hundred of Mere, London 1822, p.75; W.G. Constable & J.G. Links, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), first edition, 1976, p.483, no.632; 3rd edition, Oxford 1989, vol. II, p. 528, no. 632, reproduced vol. I, pl. 115.

An astonishingly beautiful, large and rare drawing by the famous Venetian 18^th-century draughtsman and painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, sold to a prestigious private collection.