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BERNARDO BELLOTTO Perspective de la Place de la grande Garde.
Etching, 1750. 530x823 mm; 21x32½ inches, wide margins. Third state (of 4). Pine cone watermark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large, scarce etching with very strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.
Bellotto (circa 1721/22-1780), was a northern Italian painter or vedutista and printmaker, famous for his etched vedute of European cities such as Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of Antonio da Canal, Il Canaletto, and sometimes used his uncle's illustrious name, signing as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto simply called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto, causing some confusion. Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute at this time, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views. DeVesme 15.
