Venise dans l'Art/Venice in Art

VENICE.- Over 70 works from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, including 20 paintings by great sixteenth to eighteenth-century Venetian masters, which return to Venice after centuries, appear alongside drawings and paintings from the Venetian civic collections, revealing shared aspects of collecting history between Venice and St. Petersburg. Veronese, Titian, Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi Works never before displayed in Italy and which indeed in some cases have never left the Hermitage are on show in Mestre, including... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1: Giovanni Grubacs (Venice 1829 - 1919), Venice, a view of Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, oil on panel, signed lower right: ' G. G'; panel: 6 by 9 5/8 in.; 15 by 24.5 cm; framed: 11 1/8 by 15 in.; 28.1 by 38.2 cm. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000. © Sotheby's Property of a Private Collector Note: We are grateful to Charles Beddington for confirming the attribution to Giovanni Grubacs.  Lot 2: Giovanni Grubacs (Venice 1829 - 1919), Venice, a view of the Grand Canal... [Lire la suite]

Lot 23. Johann Richter (Stockholm 1665-1745 Venice), Venice, the Piazzetta looking south from the Basilica di San Marco with the Biblioteca and a crowd gathered to watch a comedia dell' arte performance, the columns of San Marco and San tTeodoro, the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore and the Giudecca beyond, oil on canvas, 122.4 x 161.4 cm.; 48 1/8  x 63 1/2  in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 GBP. Lot sold 344,750 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: Mrs. John Innes... [Lire la suite]

Lot 22. Johann Richter (Stockholm 1665-1745 Venice), Venice, the Piazzetta looking north-west towards the campanile, with the Biblioteca, the Procuratie Vecchie, the Torre dell'Orologio and numerous figures in carnival costume and a man in polish dress , oil on canvas, 129.9 x 162.3 cm.; 48 3/8  x 63 7/8  in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 GBP. Lot sold 368,750 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: Mrs. John Innes Kane; By whom bequeathed to The Cooper Union Museum,... [Lire la suite]

Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 - 1780 Warsaw), Venice, Piazza San Marco looking East towards the Basilica, oil on canvas, 61 x 92.7 cm.; 24 x 36 1/2  in. Estimate 2,500,000 — 3,500,000 GBP. Lot sold 2,521,250 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: The Rev. Wadham Knatchbull (1794–1876), Prebendary of Wells, Cholderton Lodge, Hampshire, and subsequently Sherborne, Dorset; By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 24 June 1876, lot 118 (unsold at 210 guineas and sent to Captain Knatchbull at Babington, Bath,... [Lire la suite]

Canaletto (Venice 1697-Venice 1768), The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day, c.1733–4. Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 125.4 cm, RCIN 404417, Royal Collection Trust/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016 LONDON - A new exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace reunites two of Canaletto's finest sets of paintings, displayed side by side for the first time in almost 40 years.  Canaletto & the Art of Venice, opening tomorrow (19 May),  shows six views of Venice produced early in the artist's career in... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875), Vue de Venise, 1928. Inscribed Venise 12 juillet (lower right), oil on paper laid down on canvas, 10 by 12 1/8 in. (25.8 by 32 cm.). Price on request. Gallery 19c. This newly discovered painting is one of only five known depictions of Venice from Corot’s first trip to Italy in 1828.   Provenance: Private French Collection (and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, April 23, 2004, lot 4, illustrated) Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875), Venise, vue du Campo della Carita en regardant le Dôme de la Salute, 1834. Vente Corot stamp lower right, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 10 1/2 by 15 in. Price on request. Gallery 19c. There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him. - Claude Monet Provenance: Estate of the artist (and sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Corot, May 29 - June 9, 1875, lot 80) Collection Hector Brame Ernest May, Paris (and sold, his sale June... [Lire la suite]

Lot 43. Venetian School, mid 18th century, Venice, a view of the Bacino with the Bucintoro on the feast of the Ascension, oil on canvas, 44 by 52 in.; 112 by 132 cm. Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's; Notes: This large and striking view of Venice was painted in the mid-18th century by an artist keenly aware of Luca Carlevarijs's work. Despite the evident similarities with Carlevarijs' style, particularly in the figures, his authorship can be excluded since the... [Lire la suite]

"Sérénissime ! Venise en fête de Tiepolo à Guardi". Affiche. PARIS - Au XVIIIe siècle, la stabilité politique et économique de la République Sérénissime établit le dernier âge d’or vénitien, auquel mettra un terme la conquête napoléonienne de 1797. Cet ultime chapitre d’une histoire millénaire sera marqué par un déploiement inouï d’évènements publics et privés à Venise. Les fêtes, célébrations, régates, et autres spectacles rythment la vie de la cité et attirent curieux et amateurs de l’Europe entière.  Loin d’être de purs... [Lire la suite]