Private collection, Saxony.[1] Possibly (Sabin, London); sold 1928 to (Karl Haberstock, Berlin), possibly until 1936.[2] Acquired by Dr. Gustav Mez [d. 1944], Rorschacherberg, Switzerland;[3] (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York); purchased 1951 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] A photograph of the painting in the Witt Library, London, is inscribed with the information that the painting was once in the collection of Augustus III, elector of Saxony (see photocopy in NGA curatorial files.) [2] Karl Haberstock appears to have handled two Bellotto views of Munich: the Gallery version and one that was sold to the Sonderauftrag Linz, processed through the Munich Central Collecting Point (no. 7573) in 1945, transferred in 1949 to the German government, and sent to the Auswärtig Amt in 1962 (see photocopies from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, in NGA curatorial files). This other version, first published by Andrzej Rottermund in 1998 (see bibliography), was auctioned by Koller International Auctions in Zurich on 1 October 2021. One of the two Bellottos was acquired by Haberstock from Sabin in London in April 1928 (see photocopies from Haberstock-archiv in NGA curatorial files), and at least one was still in his possession as of 1936, per Hellmuth Allwill Fritzsche, Bernardo Bellotto, genannt Canaletto, Burg-bei-Magdeburg, 1936: 116. [3] According to Saemy Rosenberg (letter of 7 December 1955, to NGA curator Fern Rusk Shapley, in NGA curatorial files), the painting was acquired by a private collector from a Dresden collection during World War II. Stefan Kozakiewicz, in his 1972 catalogue raisonné, identified the collector as Gustav Mez, a German resident in Switzerland (see bibliography). It is possible that both this painting and its companion (NGA 1961.9.63) were acquired by Mez from Haberstock in 1929, when the third painting of the group (replicas of the originals in the electoral palace painted for Elector Maximilian III Joseph) was sold. [4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2438.