CANALETTO (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
1697-1768p Warwick Castle: The East Front
from the Courtyard
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk; H: 31.7
cm (i2l/2 in.); W: 57 cm (22^7 /i6 in.)
86.00.727
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom right
corner, collection mark of Paul Sandby (L. 2112); (verso)
on mount, inscribed Warwick Castle Canalletti in brown
ink.
PROVENANCE: Francis Greville, first earl of Brooke and
Warwick; George Greville, second earl of Warwick, or
his brother, the Hon. Charles Greville(P); Paul Sandby,
London (sale, Christie's, London, March 17, 1812, part
of lot 91); art market, London; Lady Eva Dugdale, Royal
Lodge, Windsor Great Park (sale, Sotheby's, London,
November 18, 1920, part of lot 42); art market, London;
Adrien Fauchier-Magnan, Neuilly-sur-Seine (sale,
Sotheby's, London, December 4, 1935, lot 5); A. Tooth,
London; Sir George Leon, Bt., London; art market,
New York; John R. Gaines, Lexington, Kentucky (sale,
Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 1986, lot 25).
EXHIBITIONS: Canaletto, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, October 1989-January 1990, no. 113 (cata-
logue by K. Baetjer andj. G. Links).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. F. Finberg, "Canaletto in England,"
Walpole Society 9 (1920-21), p. 68; D. von Hadeln, The
Drawings of Antonio Canal Called Canaletto (London,
1929), p. 15; O. Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eigh-
teenth Century in America (New York, 1947), p. 37, under
no. 53; C. Sterling, Exposition de la collection Lehman de
New York, exh. cat. (Musee de 1'Orangerie, Paris, 1957),
p. 64, under no. 89; W. G. Constable, Canaletto (Oxford,
1962), vols. i, p. 142; 2, p. 536, no. 760; J. Bean and F.
Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections III: The
Eighteenth Century in Italy, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art, New York, 1971), p. 68, under no. 157; T.
Pignatti, Venetian Drawings from American Collections,
exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
1974), p. 50, under no. 103; W. G. Constable, Canaletto,
2nd ed., rev. J. G. Links (Oxford, 1976), vols. i, p. 142;
2 , p. 584, no. 760; J. G. Links, "Canaletto in England,"
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 129 (1980-81), p. 304;
A. Bettagno, Canaletto: Disegni—dipinti—incisioni, exh.
cat. (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1982), p. 76, un-
der no. 105; D. Buttery, "Canaletto at Warwick," Bur-
lington Magazine 129, no. 1012 (July 1987), p. 444.
THE VIEW SHOWN HERE is OF THE EAST FRONT OF
Warwick Castle from the inner court, with Guy's Tower
at the left, the Clock Tower at the center, and Caesar's
Tower at the right. Another drawing by Canaletto of an
alternate view of the east front from the outer court, with
virtually the same dimensions and similar in every re-
spect, is in the Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan
Museum of Art (inv. 1975.1.297). The Getty drawing
may well have served as a preparatory study for the paint-
ing in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
(Baetjer and Links 1989-90, no. 69). Although there
are more figures in the painting, it is so close in every
other respect as to suggest that the drawing either antic-
ipated or records it. The relatively free character of the
draughtsmanship would argue strongly in favor of the
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