Padua with the Porta Pontecorvo and Santa Giustina from the ramparts, after Canaletto; a boat on the river in the left foreground Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Drawn by: Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto
Formerly attributed to: Antonio Canaletto
Dieter Hadeln accepted the traditional attribution to Canaletto, and it was Karl Parker who rightly assigned this to the young Bellotto. The drawing is based on Canaletto's drawing in the Royal Collection (Parker 76, pl. 55; Constable-Links 682). Further Bellotto drawings based on the Windsor study are in Budapest (Kozakiewicz 35) and in Darmstadt (Kozakiewicz 37 and 38). Bellotto also made an etching based on the composition (Kozakiewicz 39). Lit: D. Hadeln, 'The Drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto', London, 1929, p. 13 (as Canaletto); K.T. Parker, 'The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle', Oxford and London, 1948, under no. 76, p. 45; W.G. Constable, 'Canaletto', Oxford, 1962, under no. 682 (ditto, but with correct location of ex-Darmstadt drawing, in 2nd edition revised by J.G. Links, 1976); I. Fenyö, 'Norditalienische Zeichnungen Museum Budapest', 1965, Dresden, p. 159; idem, in exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, ' Disegni veneti del Museo di Budapest', 1965, under no. 99; S. Kozakiewicz, 'Bernardo Bellotto', II, Milan, 1972, no. 5, p. 8; B.A. Kowalczyk, in exhib. cat. (E. Peters Bowron ed.), Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 'Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe', 2001, under no. 1, p. 42
Topographic representation of: Padua
Bequeathed by: George Salting