The Ponte Vecchio, Florence
Bernardo Bellotto
(Italian (Venetian), 1720–1780)
1740–1780
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions55.9 x 87.6 cm (22 x 34 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession number25.1
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Bellotto studied with his uncle, Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto) beginning about 1735, and his early works are often confused with those of the older master. This view of the picturesque Ponte Vecchio was probably painted during Bellotto's extensive travels throughout northern Italy before he left the country permanently in 1747.
ProvenanceDr. Götz Martius (b. 1853 - d. 1927), Kiel, Germany. By 1922, Bachstitz Gallery, the Hague, the Netherlands; 1925, sold by the Bachstitz Gallery to the MFA for $8500. (Accession Date: January 8, 1925)
Mariano José Maria Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó (aka Mariano Fortuny y Marsal)
