A Venetian water fete (Rotta)

A Venetian water fete (also known as Una festa Veneziana sull'acqua or Un baccanale di Venezia) is a 19th-century painted in oil on canvas made by Antonio Rotta, in 1863, in Venice, Italy. The artwork measures centimeters 172 x 106 (41.7 x 67.7 in.).
Antonio Rotta's work "A Venetian water fete" was auctioned in 2001 at Sotheby's in London and acquired by an English collector for € 158.000 plus auction fees.
Antonio Rotta is one of the most famous painters in the Italian history of genre painting, compared to a poet of the Venetian ballads, he describes the everyday life and feelings of the Venice at this epoque.
Rotta has created 3 other similar works that make up a cycle of boat parties in Venice and recall the still current existence of the Redentore feast.
Description.
The art work describes the typical Venetian festival, probably during the Feast of the Redeemer, with two boats side by side and musicians in the Venice lagoon in Italy.