LEONE COLLE
(active in Venice in the 1870s)
Venice: The Piazza San Marco during Carnival by Moonlight
Signed and dated ‘Colle Leone f.1878.’ (lower left)
Oil on canvas - 32 ⅞ x 44 ½ inches (83.5 x 113 cm)
Only a few other works by the artist are known. A view of the Grand Canal is in the Terruzzi Collection and currently on loan at La Pergola restaurant in the Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria hotel.