The Porta Portello, Padua
The Porta Portello, Padua
- Artist
- Canaletto
- Also Known As
- Antonio Canal
- Artist Dates
- 1697-1768
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Porta Portello, Padua
- Date
- c. 1741/1742
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62 x 109 cm (24 7/16 x 42 15/16 in)
- K Number
- K2175
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.53
- Notes
Provenance
L.T.N. Gould, Suffolk; sold 1943 to (P & D Colnaghi & Co., London); sold later that year to Francis F. Madan, London, as by Bellotto; [1] (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 15 July 1955, no. 88, as by Canaletto); purchased by H. Cevat; [2] (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York, London, and Zurich); purchased 1957 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] See letter dated 8 May 1990 from Nadia E. Awad of the Getty Provenance Index, in NGA curatorial files. [2] Christie's annotated sale catalogue lists the purchaser as "H. Cevat."