May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ANTONIO DA CANAL, IL CANALETTO
House with the Inscription and the House with the Peristyle (Imaginary View of Venice).

The pair of etchings on 2 joined sheets of cream laid paper, circa 1740. 300x430 mm; 11 7/8x17 inches, narrow margins. Bromberg 13 the only state; Bromberg 14 the second state (of 2), with the artist's initials lower right. Coat-of-arms with stars watermark (Bromberg 25/27, which she dates to impressions printed during the 1760s). Superb, very strongly-inked impressions with dark contrasts.

Originally a single composition consisting of the Imaginary View of Venice, the plate was divided by Canaletto for unknown reasons prior to its publication in 1741. DeVesme 12 and 13; Bromberg 13 and 14.