Provenance:
Gift of the artist to George Ebers, Tutzing & Leipzig, 1876
by bequest to his son Hermann Ebers
by bequest to his (laughter, Miss Anthonie Ebers, Munich, 28 Nov 1978
Sotheby's sale, Belgravia, 28 Nov. 1978, p. 19, lot 110, illus.
Messrs. Nick Drummond, London
Private collection, New York

Literature:
G. Swanson, The Unknown Tadema: A Study in Connoisseurship (exhibition catalogue), Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah, 1 979, #l 9
Vern Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, cat.# 198, illus.

Exhibited:
The Unknown Tadema: A Study of Connoisseurship, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, February 5-23, 1979, #19

Note:
Alma-Tadema had just visited his friend George Ebers in Bavaria and was on his way to Italy to spend a couple of months in Rome when he painted this view in Venice. It was December of 1875. Soon after its execution, he probably sent the sketch to Ebers as a
souvenir. There are several oil sketches known to have been executed on this sojourn. (Present location unknown, formerly with Nicholas- Drummond, London)