A Capriccio with a Gentleman passing below an Archway and a Street with Figures beyond
oil on panel
8 x 5in. (20.3 x 12.7cm.)
Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Rome
Moratilla collection, Paris
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York
R. Heinemann, New York
Literature
Stroganoff Collection, Catalogue, 1910
A. Morassi, Guardi, 1973 , I, pp. 459-60, no. 805; II, fig. 735
L. Rossi Borolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, 1974, no. 604
Lot Essay
A similar composition (20.3 x 14.2cm.) is in the collection of the Duke of Sutherland, St. Boswelles, Roxburghshire (Morassi, no. 804)