Capriccio with a Portico and a City Beyond

Artist Michele Marieschi (Italian, 1710 - 1743)

Date1730-1735

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 10 13/16 × 17 13/16 inches (27.46 × 45.26 cm)
Framed: 16 7/8 × 23 13/16 inches (42.86 × 60.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number31-51 A

On View

On view

Gallery Location

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DescriptionThe right foreground is dominated by a large, ruined portico, set an an oblique angle. Constructed of wood and stone, it has an upper balcony at left, upon which stands a woman in red and from which a gray and white flag is suspended. Three figures appear on a wooden, zigzag staircase at lower right. A man and a woman stand near a pier at center foreground. A blue-green body of water occupies the middle ground with docked sailboats and other small craft. At the shore along the horizon is a domed Renaissance building; several narrow towers are silhouetted against a hazy blue sky.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, City Art Museum of St. Louis, March 1-31, 1936, no. 27.

Canaletto, Art Gallery of Ontario, October 17-November 15, 1964; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, December 4, 1964-January 10, 1965; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, January 29-February 28, 1965, no. 133.

The Circle of Canaletto, Allentown Art Museum, PA, February 21-March 21, 1971, no. 32.

City Views, Kansas City, MO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 19A.

Provenance

Dr. Alexander von Frey (1882-1951), Paris, by 1931;

Purchased from Frey by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 21, 137, (repro.).

"Special Loan Exhibition of Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis 21 (March 1936): 29.

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2^nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 169

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 262.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del settecento (Venice: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1960), 194.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, Die Venezianische Malerei des 18 Jahrhunderts, trans. Hanna Kiel (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1961), 190.

William G. Constable, Canaletto, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1964), 160, (repro.).

Marco Valsecchi, Venezia 700: Francesco Guardi e il suo tempo nelle raccolte private bergamasche, exh. cat. (Bergamo: Galleria Lorenzelli, 1969), unpaginated, (repro.).

The Circle of Canaletto, exh. cat. (Allentown, Pennsylvania: Allentown Art Museum, 1971), unpaginated, (repro.).

Ralph T. Coe, “The Baroque and Rococo in France and Italy,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 541 [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 73].

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 120, 493, 589.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 260.

Dizionario enciclopedico dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, vol. 7 (Milan: Mondadori, 1983), 202.

Ross E. Taggart and Roger Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 11.

Terisio Pignatti, Five Centuries of Italian Painting, 1300-1800, from The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (Houston: The Foundation, 1985), 201.

George Keyes et al., A Collection Rediscovered: European Paintings from the Tweed Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1986), 75, 76n6, 76n11.

Ralph Toledano, Michele Marieschi: L'opera completa (Milan: A. Mondadori, 1988), no. C38, p. 147, (repro.).

Eliot W. Rowlands, The Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings 1300-1800, (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 372-376.

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