Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712-1793) - Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
119x204cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 34.06 million
Auction house: Christie's, London
Sale date: 6 July 2017
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, London:
This magnificent picture by Francesco Guardi is one of the celebrated pair of views of the Grand Canal at the Rialto painted in the mid-1760s which were arguably the most accomplished works of the artist’s early maturity as a view painter. The two are ambitious in scale and, for all the familiarity of their subject, startlingly innovative both in design and pictorial mood, standing thus among the signal masterpieces of eighteenth-century European art.