Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)

A capriccio with ruins and a small temple (recto); An elegant interior with garlanded columns (verso)

Details

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
A capriccio with ruins and a small temple (recto); An elegant interior with garlanded columns (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown-grey wash, watermark fragmentary cartouche with crescent
7 7/8 x 5½ in. (200 x 140 mm.)

Provenance

Fauchier-Magnan; Sotheby's London, 4 December 1935, lot 29.
Duc de Talleyrand.

Literature

A. Morassi, Dessins vénitiens du dix-huitième siècle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 72, illustrated.
A. Morassi, Guardi, I disegni, Venice, 1973 (reprinted 1984), no. 639, fig. 620.
A. Morassi, Guardi, I dipinti, Venice, 1975 (reprinted 1984), under no. 948.

Lot Essay

Related to a picture also formerly in the Fauchier-Magnan Collection known in another version in the Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, (A. Morassi, Guardi, I dipinti, nos. 948 and 934, fig. 831). Antonio Morassi judged this drawing to be a late work by the artist. A copy of this drawing by the artist's son Giacomo was formerly in the Mather collection in Springfield, Mass.

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