Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto

With Caspari Gallery, Munich;

From whom acquired by Colnaghi, London, 1926;

From whom acquired by Leggatt Bros., London, 1927;

From whom acquired by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (née Elizabeth Mills, 1858-1931), Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York, 1928;

Her estate sale, American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, 14-18 May 1935, lot 1157;

Where acquired by Julius H. Weitzner, New York, for $1,300;

From whom acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1938 (inv. no. 38.9);

From whom bought back by Julius H. Weitzner, New York, 1958;

With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York;

From whom acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with funds provided by the George T. Delacorte, Jr. Fund, 1959 (inv. no. 59.38);

By whom sold ("Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund"), Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 2020, lot 64;

Where acquired by the present collector.

San Francisco Museum of Art, Survey of Landscape Painting, 2–30 June 1936, no. 8 (lent by Julius H. Weitzner Galleries, New York);

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, 16 May – 15 June 1941, no. 9 (lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts);

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, 1 May – 2 September 1974;

Athens, National Gallery; Alexandros Soutsos Museum, From El Greco to Cézanne, 13 December 1992 – 11 April 1993, no. 32 (lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art);

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections, 9 September 2010 – 2 January 2011, no. 35;

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Beijing, National Museum of China, Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art: Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6 October 2012 – 9 May 2013, no. 125.

"Furniture and Art of Whitelaw Reid Realize $290,322," in Art News 33, no. 34 (25 May 1935), p. 14;

San Francisco Museum of Art, Survey of Landscape Painting, San Francisco 1936, n.p., cat. no. 8;

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco 1941, pp. 12, 60, cat. no. 9, reproduced;

"Canaletto's Venice," in Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 27, no. 29 (5 November 1938), pp. 147-149, 152, reproduced;

W. G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768, Oxford 1962, vol. II, p. 257, cat. no. 175; and later editions revised by J.G. Links, Oxford 1976 and 1989, vol. II, p. 271, cat. no. 175;

L. Puppi, The Complete Paintings of Canaletto, New York 1968, p. 111, cat. no. 237C;

B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 42, 609;

F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School, New York 1973, p. 14, reproduced pl. 13;

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1980, vol. II, p. 135, reproduced;

J.G. Links, Canaletto. The Complete Paintings, St. Albans 1981, p. 26, under cat. no. 60;

A. Corboz, Canaletto: Una Venezia immaginaria, Milan 1985, vol. II, p. 656, cat. no. P334;

N.H.J. Hall (ed.), Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi New York, New York 1992, p. 131;

A. Tamvaki, in From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exhibition catalogue, Athens 1992, n.p., cat. no. 32, reproduced;

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 91, reproduced;

A. Derstine, in La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City 2010, pp. 109, 115 notes 23 and 25, 124-125, 191, cat. no. 35, reproduced;

K. Baetjer, in Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art; Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, P. Barnet, A. Nakahara, and N. Kakehi (eds.), Tokyo 2012, pp. 192, 194-195, 260, cat. no. 125, reproduced; Chinese ed., Hefei Shi 2013, pp. 276-277, cat. no. 125, reproduced.