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(Genoa 1787–1869 Varese) A View of Locarno from the Naviglio Grande, c. 1830, oil on cardboard on canvas, 30 x 47.5 cm, unframed Provenance: Private Collection, Italy. A certificate by Prof. Fernando Mazzocca, 12 June 2023, is available upon request. Giuseppe Bisi was a versatile landscape painter in Restoration Milan, so highly regarded for both his vistas and landscapes that a chair was established for him as professor of landscape painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1838, a position he occupied until 1856. A similar view of Locarno by Bisi was published by Virgilio Gilardoni in 1972 in his catalogue "I monumenti d'arte e storia del Canton Ticino: Locarno e il suo circolo" (p.15). Another view of Locarno, also by Bisi but smaller in size, was exhibited in 2020 in Rancante-Mendrisio in the Pinacoteca Comunale Giovanni Züst in the exhibition "Uno sguardo sul collezionismo privato nella Lugano del Sette e Ottocento: le quadrerie Riva", (pp. 158-161). This painting depicts the canal port built in 1828 in the foreground. Boats are anchored along the banks and the figures of the passers-by are well defined. The buildings of the old town centre are in the background, with the new and elegant bourgeois buildings to the right. The mountain peaks, draped in a curtain of clouds, limit the view to the left.