About the Artwork
Bellotto followed in the footsteps of his uncle, Canaletto, as one of Europe’s leading painters of cityscapes. His international career took him to various parts of the Italian peninsula, as well as to Saxony, Bohemia, and eventually to Poland, where he settled. This view of some of the most famous and beloved monuments of Rome, including the Castel Sant'Angelo and the dome of Saint Peter's, belongs to the early production of the artist. While it still betrays the influence of his uncle, Canaletto, it also shows some of Bellotto's own style, in particular a sense of immediacy.
View of the Tiber in Rome with the Castel Sant'Angelo
1743 or 1744
Bernardo Bellotto
1722-1780
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 34 3/8 × 58 3/8 inches (87.3 × 148.3 cm) Framed: 45 1/2 × 69 3/4 × 4 inches (115.6 × 177.2 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
40.166
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
until 1930, George Folliott (Vicars Cross, Chester, Englad)
1930, dealer, Colnaghi
1940, dealer, Jacob M. Heimann (New York, New York, USA)
1940-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Art in the Saleroom." Apollo 11 (1930): pp. 403-404 (ill.). [preview of May 1930 Sotheby’s exhibition]
Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters. Colnaghi & Co. London, Summer 1930, cat. 13. [as Canaletto]
Four Centuries of Venetian Painting. Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1940, cat. 13 (ill.). ["View of the Tiber" cat. entry by H. Tietze, who first reattributed the ptg. to Bellotto]
Richardson, E.P. Bulletin of the DIA 20, 6 (March 1941): pp. 60-62 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 11, cat. 427.
Richardson, E.P. "Bellotto, View of the Tiber with Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome." In Favorite Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1948, pp. 50, 53–55, no. IX, pl. IX (ill.).
Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 85 (ill.).
Venice 1700-1800. An exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1952-1953, cat. 3.
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb. Detroit Institute of Arts. 1954, p. 88-89 (ill.). [paired with Toledo version of Tiber]
Voss, H. "Europäische meister des 18. Jahrhunderts in der Royal Academy von London." Kunstchronik 8 (February 1955): pp. 37-40 (fig. 2b).
The Century of Mozart. Exh. cat, The Nelson Gallery. Kansas City, 1956, pp. 13, 25, 60, no. 4 (ill.).
Grigaut P.L., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1960, p. 103 (ill.).
Italian Art and Britain. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1960, 78, no. 184.
Krönig, W. "Geschichte Einer Rom-Vedute." Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae. (1961): p. 403-406, fig. 283 (ill.).
Pallucchini, R. Vedute del Bellotto. Milan, 1961, p. 9, no. 11.
Constable, W. G. Canaletto, vol. 2. Oxford, 1962, p. 374-375, cat. 407a.
"Youthful Works By Great Artists." AMAM Bulletin XX, 3 (Spring 1963):, cat. 17. [show held March 10-30, 1963, Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum]
Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto in Dresden und Warschau. Gemäldgalerie. Dresden, 1963-64, p. 19.
Drezno i Warszawa w tworczoci Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto. Galerie Dawnych Mistrzo-Muzeum Narodowe. Warsaw, 1964-65, p. 26.
Kozakiewicz, S. "Bernardo Bellotto." Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 7. Rome, 1965, p. 798.
Paintings in the DIA. A checklist of paintings acquired before June. 1965, p. 13.
Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, 1965, p. 15.
Kozakiewicz, S. "Un pittore quasi sconosciuto, Lorenzo Bellotto, figlio di Bernardo e un seria bellottiana di vedute di Roma." Venezia e la Polonia nei secoli dal XVII al XIX. Venice, 1965, p. 95. [series: Civilta Veneziana, Studi 19]
Pallucchini, R. "L'arte del Bellotto." Venezia e la Polonia nei secoli nei XVII al XIX. Venice, 1965, p. 71, fig. 31 (ill.).
Kozakiewicz, S. "Il motivo capitolino nell’arte di Bernardo Bellotto." Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie 7 (1966): p. 16.
Pignatti, T. "Gli inizii di Bernardo Bellotto." Arte Veneta 20 (1966): p. 219.
Richardson, E.P. Treasures from the DIA, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 109 (ill.).
Valcanover, F. Bernardo Bellotto. Maestri di Colori. 1966, p. 4 cat. 1 (ill.).
Essen, Villa Hügel. Europäische Veduten der Bernardo Bellotto genannt Canaletto. 1966, p. 18.
Myers, B. S., ed. Encyclopedia Of Painting. New York, 1970, pp. 33-34 (pl. 7).
Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth century: Rococco to Romanticism. Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1970, pp. 50-51, cat. 14 (ill.).
Hughes, Robert. "Orphan Celebrated." Time (March 8, 1971): pp. 50-53 (ill.).
Kozakiewicz, S. Bernardo Bellotto gennant Canaletto. Recklingshausen. 1972, vol. 1, pp. 35, 38; vol. 2, pp. 48-51 (fig. 64). [also English ed., trans. by M. Whittall, Greenwich, CT, 1972]
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 24.
Camesasca, E. L'Opera Completa del Bellotto. 1974, no. 36 (ill.).
Constable, W. G. Canaletto, vol. 2. London, 1976, p. 404, no. 407a. [2nd ed. of 1962 volume]
Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the DIA. Detroit, 1979, p. 67 (col. pl. xxiii).
Constable, W. G. and J.G. Links. Canaletto, Vol. 2. Oxford, 1989, p. 404, no. 407a. [revised version of 1962, 1976 editions]
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989-1990, pp. 70, 212, cat. 38 (ill.).
Bernardo Bellotto: Verona e le città europee. Museo di Castelvecchio. Milan, 1990, p. 66-67 (repro.). [as comparanda, with discussion - entry by Giorgio Marini]
Marini, G. "Il fiume e il castello: precisazioni sul viaggio romano di Bernardo Bellotto." Artibus et Historiae 12 (1991): pp. 147-163.
Bowron, E.P. "A Venetian Abroad: Bellotto and `the most beautiful views' of Rome." Apollo (September 1994): pp. 26-32 (ill.).
Henshaw, J., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts, A Visitor’s Guide. 1995, p. 187 (ill.).
Villis, C. "Bernardo Bellotto's Seven Large Views of Rome, c. 1743." The Burlington Magazine 142, 1163 (Feb. 2000): pp. 76, 80 (ill.).
Wissman, F. W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 42, 44, 46 (ill.).
Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe. Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, 2001, pp. 108, 110-11, cat. 25 (ill.). [entry by E.P. Bowron]
Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 28-31, cat. 9. [entry by A. Derstine]
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.
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Bernardo Bellotto, View of the Tiber in Rome with the Castel Sant'Angelo, 1743 or 1744, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 40.166.
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