A capriccio of ruins on the Venetian laguna with washerwomen and other figures, mountains beyond

Dr. Dario Succi, to whom we are very grateful, has suggested, on the basis of photographs, that this is a fully autograph work which he dates to circa 1785 'come confermano le peculiari caratteristiche stilistiche e la delicata tavolozza cromatica' (private correspondence, 26 May 2003).