Lot 83: THE MASTER OF THE LANGMATT FOUNDATION VIEWS

PROPERTY OF BARBARA L. SHAPIRO AND GEORGE M. SHAPIRO ACTIVE VENICE CIRCA 1740-1770 VENICE, A VIEW OF THE DOGE'S PALACE LOOKING TOWARDS SAINT MARK'S; VENICE, A VIEW OF THE ZATTERE WITH THE CHURCH OF SPIRITO SANTO Quantity: 2 a pair, both oil on canvas each: 11 5/8 by 17 5/8 in.; 29.5 by 44.7 cm.

The Countess Sala, New York; Her deceased sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 17-18 November 1961, lot 193 and 194 (as by Jacopo Marieschi); There purchased by Sonia Rachelson; By whom given to Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Chait, New York; Thence by inheritance to the present owners.

We are grateful to Charles Beddington for endorsing the attribution to the Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views, on the basis of photographs. This anonymous artist's body of work is named for a series of seven views of Venice in the collection of the Langmatt Foundation, Zurich.