One of 22 views of Warsaw painted by Bellotto for the Senators’ Antechamber (known as the Canaletto Room) at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Signed and inscribed on the bottom right (on the stone): Prospectus Varsavia,/ Suburbiu[m] Cracoviense, a Por=/ta eiusde[m] no[m]inis delineatum/ 1. Colu[m]na cu[m] Statua Pedestri Sigismundi III./ 2. Platea Senatorum./ 3. Te[m]plu[m] Monialiu[m] S: Francisci/ 4. Basilica P.P. Bernardinoru[m]/ 5. Capella Monialiu[m] Carmeli discalceatoru[m]/ 6. Basilica P.P. Carmeli discalceatoru[m]/ 7. Basilica S. Crucis/ 8. Palatiu[m] Principis Czartoryski Palatini Russiae/ 9. Palatiu[m] Comitis Małachowski/ 10. Palatiu[m] Episcoporu[m] Cracoviensiu[m]/ B.B. de Canaletto
The painting is listed in the 1795 catalogue of the Stanisław August collection under no. 430: “Vue de Varsovie prise de la Porte de Cracovie".
Red number of Russian Imperial collection 4578 (added in 1832, in St Petersburg, following the removal of the painting to Russia as part of the repressions following the November Uprising) bottom left.