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Paolo Anesi (Rome circa 1700-circa 1761) A view of the Ponte Rotto, Rome image 1
Paolo Anesi (Rome circa 1700-circa 1761) A view of the Ponte Rotto, Rome image 2
Paolo Anesi (Rome circa 1700-circa 1761) A view of the Ponte Rotto, Rome image 3
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Property of a gentleman (lots 4, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 24, 29-31, 40, 48, 55, 62, 63, 69, 70)
Lot 13*,TP

Paolo Anesi
(Rome circa 1700-circa 1761)
A view of the Ponte Rotto, Rome

2 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£50,000 - £70,000

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Paolo Anesi (Rome circa 1700-circa 1761)

A view of the Ponte Rotto, Rome
oil on canvas
95.3 x 132.7cm (37 1/2 x 52 1/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 January 2000, lot 81
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2019, lot 300 (hammer $90,000), where purchased by the present owner

At the time of the 2000 sale, Laura Laureati confirmed the attribution to Paolo Anesi, on the basis of photographs.

A popular subject for landscape and vedute painters working in Rome, the Ponte Rotto (or 'broken bridge') crosses the Tiber near the Isola Tiberiana. The bridge is what remains of the Roman Pons Aemilius which originally connected the Forum Boarium (cattle market) and Trastevere. Whilst three arches are depicted in Anesi's present view, only one arch is now intact. One of the leading artists of landscape active in Rome in the mid-18th Century, Paolo Anesi became known for his idealised and topographical views of Rome and the surrounding campagna.

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