Luca Carlevarijs: 8 works

'Luca Carlevarijs painted many vedute, views of Venice that were popular souvenirs with diplomatic visitors and wealthy foreigners making the Grand Tour of Italy in the 1700s.'

'Carlevarijs is considered to be largely responsible for establishing the style of Venetian view painting for which artists like Canaletto would later become famous. His pictures combine wide vistas, sparkling light and bustling crowds.'

'This work is part of an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs which includes figures he appears to have painted in the open air in preparation for insertion into formal compositions.This figure appears for example in the right foreground of The Molo and the Piazzetta, Looking West now in a private collection.'

'These three studies of male costume form part of an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs which includes figures he appears to have painted in the open air in preparation for insertion into formal compositions.'

'This work is part of an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs which includes figures he appears to have painted in the open air in preparation for insertion into formal compositions.'

'Figures in very similar dress appear for example in Carlevarijs' paintings depicting the Entry of foreign Embassies such as Spain and France into the Palazzo Ducale, Venice.'

'This work is part of an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs which includes figures he appears to have painted in the open air in preparation for insertion into formal compositions. A figure wearing this costume appears for example in two of Carlevarijs' paintings of the Piazetta in Venice, both now in private collections.'

'Carlevarijs not infrequently executed pairs of paintings; it is also possible that the second canvas bears the signature, or at least the initials, of the artist, as did all his more important works.'