Francesco Guardi* (1712-1793)

Details
Francesco Guardi* (1712-1793)

The Rialto Bridge, Venice, with Gondolas in the foreground

oil on canvas
14¾ x 20in. (37.5 x 50.8cm.)
Provenance
Count Avogli.
Heilbath, Copenhagen.
Duncan Phillips Memorial Collection, Washington.
The Hon. Michael Astor; Christie's, London, April 11, 1975, lot 66 (26,000gns.).
with Thos. Agnew & Sons, London.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 7, 1988, lot 144.
Literature
D. Phillips, A Collection in the Making, 1926, p. 98, fig. 3.
A. Morassi, Antonio e Francesco Guardi, 1973, I, p. 410, no. 540.
L.R. Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, 1974, p. 137, no. 848.
Exhibited
Copenhagen, Museum of Fine Arts, 1920, no. 39.
London, Mattheisen Gallery, Venetian Paintings, 1939, no. 69.
Louisville, Speed Art Museum, 1948, Eighteenth Century Venetian Paintings, June 1948, no. 13.