The Grand Canal, Venice

The Grand Canal, Venice

RP-T-1953-213

• draftsman (artist): Canaletto
• draftsman (artist): Bernardo Bellotto [rejected attribution]

c. 1738 - c. 1740

pen in bruin, schets in potlood

height 266 mm x width 389 mm

On loan from the Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen

Public domain

…; collection Groβherzogliches Museum, Darmstadt, 1829;{Kowalczyk 2008, p. 65.} deaccessioned by the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, possibly 1936;{Kozakiewicz 1972, p. 17, no. 14; formerly known as Groβherzogliches Museum.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Bozena A. Kowalczyk, I disegni veneziani del Bellotto, dissertatie, Venetië, 1988p. 11, 76, 78, nr. 15.

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