A Bull Hunt by Canaletto and Cimaroli

Published on 01 December 2022, by Agathe Albi-Gervy

Auction on 08 December 2022 - 15:00 (CET) - 44, Schellingstrasse - D-80799 Munich

Though coming on the market for the first time in over a quarter of a century, this large painting by two artists is well-known to both specialists and public.

Giovanni Antonio Canal, aka Canaletto (1697-1768) and Giovanni Battista Cimaroli... A Bull Hunt by Canaletto and Cimaroli

Giovanni Antonio Canal, aka Canaletto (1697-1768) and Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687-1753), Caccia ai tori in Piazza San Marco (Bull Hunt in St. Mark's Square), c. 1740, oil on canvas, 99 x 145 cm/39 x 57 in.
Estimate: €2/2.5 M

Some might identify this painting by Canaletto as something they read about or saw at an exhibition. This is hardly surprising, as the work has been published in numerous books on Canaletto and Venetian festivals, and presented in several exhibitions in Venice, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid and Wroclaw. It was already mentioned in 1761, during Canaletto's lifetime, in the collection of a rich English master pewterer and pamphlet writer living in Kent, who had died the previous year: Bourchier Cleeve (1715-1760). Also in 1761, it appears in an edition of the book London and its Environs where it is described as a work by Canaletto and Cimaroli.…

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