VENETIAN PAINTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES View of the Grand Canal with the Salute Church Oil on canvas, 55X79 cm Provenance: Private collection The painting depicts the Grand Canal with the Salute church and the image stretches as far as the Campo and the church of the Carità, whose bell tower collapsed in 1744; beyond it one can see the campanile of San Trovaso. On the left, beyond the Basilica, looms the church and abbey of San Gregorio and the 15th-century tower of Palazzo Venier, demolished in the 19th century. The canvas is compared to one by Canaletto belonging to the Houston Museum. Reference bibliography: W.G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, Second edition revised by J. G. Links, Oxford 1976, II, p. 265-266, no. 166 Canaletto Prima Maniera, exhibition catalogue edited by A. Bettagno and A. Bozena Kowalczyk, Giorgio Cini Foundation, San Giorgio Maggiore, Milan 2001, pp. 178-179, no. 74