Bernardo Bellotto
The Marketplace at Pirna

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Artist Bernardo Bellotto (Italian (Venetian), 1722–1780)Italian (Venetian), 1722–1780

CultureItalian

Titles

The Marketplace at Pirna

Datec. 1764

PlaceSaxony, Germany

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 19 × 31 3/8 in. (48.3 × 79.7 cm)
Frame: 29 1/8 × 41 1/2 in. (74 × 105.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection

Object number61.71

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceEarly whereabouts unknown; [possibly seized by Prussian authorities for unpaid debts sometime in the 19th century] (1); one of two versions of this composition taken to the Munich Collecting Point, 1944; restituted to the government of the Netherlands, 15 April 1946; restituted by the Dutch government in Amsterdam to [ Hugo Moser of Amsterdam and New York], 1946; sold by [Hugo Moser] to Samuel H. Kress, 1952; given by Samuel H. Kress Foundation to MFAH, 1961
(1) indicated by small stamp of eagle on paper transferred from an earlier frame.

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Exhibition History"Venice 1700-1800," The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts; John Huron Art Museum, Indianapolis, 1952.

"Art Treasures for America," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961–62.

"Paintings from American Museums: 1976 U.S.S.R. Exchange," State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia, February 11–March 24, 1976; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, April 8–May 20, 1976; State Museum of Ukrainian Art, Kiev, Ukraine, June 3–July 15, 1976; Belorussian State Museum of Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus, July 30–September 10, 1976.

Musée Marmottan, Paris, 1976.

"A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, February 5–April 24, 1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 17–August 7, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 8–November 27, 1994; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, December 17, 1994–March 4, 1995.

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 29–October 21, 2001.

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