Artista veneziano, XVIII secolo

The painting is present in the Fondazione Zeri photo library as "Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), manner" (inv. no. 72680).

This view, rather rare among the many perspectives of the Canal Grande taken as a subject by 18th Century landscape painters, should be ascribed to a painter active around the middle of the Century in the circle of Canaletto (who never produced a work with the same view of Venice). Various stylistic clues, from the filiform figures to the predilection for brown colour ranges, could be identified in the so-called Maestro della Fondazione Langmatt (probably Apollonio Domenichini, Venice, 1715 - 1770). A very similar to ours wiev, slightly larger in size, is in the storerooms of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh as the work of a follower of Canaletto (NG 2014).