Santa Maria della Salute · Antonio Canal (Il Canaletto)

Antonio Canal (Il Canaletto)

Santa Maria della Salute

1738/42

Oil on canvas

121 x 152 cm

Constable-Links 172

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Provenance

1John Campbell, 2^nd Duke of Argyll & 1^st Duke of Greenwich Adderbury House • Oxfordshire • until [d.] 1743 Stephen Lloyd, «Italian Paintings in the Scottish Collections of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry», in Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History (8) 2003, pp. 39, 41.

2The Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh • 1743–1952/53 The marriage of Caroline, daughter of John Campbell, 2^nd Duke of Argyll & 1^st Duke of Greenwich, to Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, led to the transfer of her father’s important art collection from Adderbury House to Dalkeith Palace, the residence of the Dukes of Buccleuch, where the paintings remained at least until the early 20th century, Lloyd, as above, n.(1).

3Edward Speelman and Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • 1952/53 Constable/Links no. 172; all six Buccleuch Canalettos were purchased jointly by Edward Speelman and Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Information given by Mr. Anthony Speelman, London, son of Edward Speelman, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 23 November 2009, and confirmed by Marlborough International Fine Art, 24 August 2012.

4Emil Bührle Zurich • 20 April 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, AStEGB, Invoice from Trafo Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz, to Emil Bührle, 20 April 1953 for four paintings (two views of Venice by Canaletto, Flowers and Lemons by Picasso, and The Prodigal Son by Puvis de Chavannes, Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 138, 139, 77, 42) for a total sum of CHF 420.000; AStEGB, Receipt for the total amount of CHF 420.000 for all four paintings, signed by F. K. Lloyd [Head of Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London], 20 April 1953.

5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 139.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1840Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters with which the Proprietors Have Favoured the Institution British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom (Pall-Mall) • London • 1840 no. 103 (?).

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 31.

1955Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1955 no. 59.

1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 87.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 10.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 8.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 139.

2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 32.

2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum 2018 no. 10.

References

1854Gustav Friedrich Waagen Treasures of Art in Great Britain London • 1854 • vol. 3, p. 314.

1857Gustav Friedrich Waagen Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain […] Supplemental Volume to the Treasures of Art in Great Britain London • 1857 • p. 437.

1890A. Francis Stewart Catalogue of Pictures at Dalkeith House 1890.

1911Henry Scott • Hew Hamilton Dalrympe Catalogue of the Pictures at Dalkeith House 1911 • no. 178.

1912Algernon Graves Summary of and Index to Waagen London • 1912 • p. 27.

1955Algernon Graves A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813–1912 • vol. 1 • A–G, London 1913 • p. 143 (?).

1955Max Huggler «Alte Meister aus der Sammlung Bührle im Schloss Jegenstorf» in Schweizer Monatshefte (35) • 1955 • pp. 268–269.

1962W. G. Constable Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768 Oxford 1962 • vol. 1, p. 119 (n. 1), vol. 2, no. 172 (W. G. Constable, J. G. Links, ²1976; ³1989).

1968Giuseppe Berto • Lionello Puppi L’opera completa del Canaletto Milan • 1968 • no. 173 (ill.; 21981; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Canaletto, Lucerne etc.).

1969Schätze aus Museen und Sammlungen in Zürich Zurich • 1969 • pp. 296–297 (ill.).

1978«Repertorium venezianischer Gemälde in öffentlichem Schweizer Besitz» in Venezianische Kunst in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein (exh. cat.) • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon (Schwyz) • 1978 • no. R15 (ill.; French edition: «Répertoire des peintures vénitiennes appartenant aux collections publiques de Suisse», in Art vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, [exh. cat.] Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva 1978).

1985André Corboz Canaletto, Una Venezia immaginaria Milan • 1985 • vol. 1 • pp. 240, 251, vol. 2, no. P 183.

1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848 • L’art de collectionner, Collections d’art en Suisse depuis 1848 • L’arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d’arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) • Zurich • 1998 • fig. 4.

2003Stephen Lloyd «Italian Paintings in the Scottish Collections of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry» in Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History (8) • 2003 • fig. 2, p. 41, n. 28.

2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 3 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 282 (ill.).