Bernardo BellottoItalian, 1721–1780Вид Венеции
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Where is “Вид Венеции” now? Collection: Perm Art Museum, Perm. Unknown.
Perm, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
Изображает городскую площадь, окаймленную домами и каналами. На переднем плане (параллельно нижнему краю рамы) неширокий канал, влево у края картины его пересекает еще канал и идет вглубь картины, по левому краю его (от зрителя) идет улица высоких каменных домов. Каналы пересечением замыкают площадь, окруженную каменными домами. У края канала работают люди. На площади и на мосту (перекинутом черз левый, уходящий вглубь картины канал) видны редкие прохожие. Небо голубое, с белыми облаками. Обрамление: На обороте надписи на подрамнике: "№12418/10038 УАХ" и "Б.Д.К.К.", "1303-10038", "инв№1634" и на клочке бумаги: "2200 Belotto-benedin".
Perm Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-62
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Perm Art Museum — © Пермская государственная художественная галерея · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Bernardo Bellotto
The whole life20 May 1722
Born
c. 1735
Joins the workshop of his uncle Canaletto
The son of Lorenzo Antonio Bellotto and Fiorenza Canal, Canaletto's sister, Bernardo loved drawing from an early age and around 1735 entered his uncle's Venetian workshop as a pupil and assistant, later becoming his collaborator. He stayed there until the early 1740s (according to some sources, from 1738 to 1743).
July 1747
Moves to Dresden at the invitation of Augustus III
At the end of 1746 Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland and a great lover of Venetian painting, invited Bellotto to Dresden, and in July 1747 the painter moved there with his wife and son. He was appointed court painter, probably through the mediation of Francesco Algarotti, at a salary of 1,750 thalers a year.
1756
The Seven Years' War: Saxony under Prussian occupation
With the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, Pirna and Königstein became battlegrounds, Prussian troops occupied Saxony, and the painter's patron Augustus III went into exile in Warsaw.
1764
On the way to St Petersburg, accepts a post in Warsaw
Finding no place for himself in Dresden, Bellotto set out to seek employment at the court of Catherine the Great in St Petersburg, but on the way accepted an invitation from Poland's newly elected King Stanisław August Poniatowski to become his court painter in Warsaw. By some accounts this was in 1764, with the post beginning in 1768; by others he was the King's court painter from 1767.
17 November 1780
Died
