Frits Thaulow: People strolling along a Venetian canal near the Arsenal. In the foreground a man reading. Signed Frits Thaulow. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm. People strolling along a Venetian canal near the Arsenal. In the foreground a man reading. The building to the left is the old rope maker's factory "Corderie della Tana" built in the 1300s to the Republic of Venice and it is part of the Arsenal. The passage to the right is "Fondamenta della Tana". To this day the Thaulow motif is unchanged. Signed Frits Thaulow. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm. French rococo frame. #%br/%# #%br/%# #%i%#This painting has been in Danish possession since 1917 when it was part of a collection of paintings by Thaulow which was put up for auction by Thaulow's art dealer Isidore Montaignac. The auction never took place because the paintings were bought by specially interested purchasers before the auction took place! The painting was titled "Canal longeant la Dogana à Venice" as it says on the label on the back, but the location is wrong.#%br/%##%br/%#Thaulow visited Venice several times among others in 1897 and in 1899. Both times in connection with the Biennale, which opened for the first time in 1895. In 1899 Thaulow was selected a member of the main jury. He sent paintings annually to the Biennale, but never with motifs from Venice.#%br/%##%br/%#According to the Norwegian art historian and expert in Thaulow, Vidar Poulsson, most of Thaulow's Venetian pictures were painted in 1899.#%br/%##%br/%##%br/%##%/i%# Estimate in DKK : 150000/250000 DKK