Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

Capriccio with the Prisons of St. Mark

Prestigious Provenance

Bibliography: Smith, Manuscript Catalogue of his Paintings bought by George III (Windsor), among nos. 85-97; ‘Note apart’, no. 9 ‘The Publick Prison at St. Mark’s’; W.G. Constable, Canaletto, Oxford, 1962, I, pl. 68; II, p. 356, no. 374; Levey,The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1964, p. 35, fig. XII; T.J. McCormick, ‘The Canaletto Exhibition in Canada’, The Burlington Magazine, CVII, No. 742, January 1965, p. 29, fig. 34; Puppi, L’opera completa del Canaletto, Milan, 1968, no. 227, reproduced; Vivian, Il Console Smith mercante e collezionista, Vicenza, 1971, p. 197; W.G. Constable, Canaletto, 2^nd ed. revised by J.G. Links, Oxford, 1976, I, pl. 68; II, pp. 382, no. 374, 433, under no. 451, and 439, under no. 460; W.L. Barcham, The Imaginary View Scenes of Antonio Canaletto, New York/London, 1977, pp. 157-8 and 161, fig. 153. Millar, catalogue of the exhibitionCanaletto. Paintings & Drawings, The Queen’s Gallery, London, 1980-1, p. 68, note 1; J.G. Links, Canaletto. The Complete Paintings, London, 1981, no. 186, reproduced; Corboz, Canaletto. Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan, 1985, I, p. 333, fig. 399; II, p. 604, no. P 123, reproduced; W.G. Constable, Canaletto, 2^nd ed. revised by J.G. Links reissued with supplement and additional plates, Oxford, 1989, I, pp. lv – lvi, pl. 68; II, pp. 382, no. 374, 433, under no. 451, 439, under no. 460, and 737; Levey, The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 2^nded., Cambridge, 1991, p. 43, under no. 408, fig. 13; The Splendours of Venice. View paintings from the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat. ed. by. V. Rossi and A. Hilliam, Lampronti Gallery London, 1 – 24 December 2014, Rome 2014, cat. 1 pp. 6-9; Beddington in Da Artemisia a Hackert. La collezione di un antiquario, exh. catalogue, Reggia di Caserta, Foligno 2019, cat. 49 pp. 106-107

Exhibitions: Louisville, Kentucky, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Eighteenth Century Venetian Painting, 1948; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, October 17 – November 15, 1964; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Canaletto, December 4, 1964 – January 10, 1965; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Canaletto, January 29 – February 28, 1965