Signed lower right "Luigi Querena 1858".
Luigi Querena was born in Venice in 1824. He specialised mainly in Venetian Vedutist painting, characterised by impeccable technique and perspective precision.
He played the role of a nineteenth-century reporter and it is thanks to him that testimonies of the revolutionary uprisings of 1848-49, during which the people of Venice rebelled against the Austrian government, have come down to us today.