FRANCESCO GUARDI* (1712-1793)

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FRANCESCO GUARDI* (1712-1793)

The Punta di Dogana, Venice, with gondolas, sandalos and shipping

oil on canvas
10 3/8 x 18in. (26.5 x 45.8cm.)

Provenance

A. Lehmann; sale, Paris, June 8, 1925, lot 206 (FF60,000)
René Fribourg, 11 East 84th Street, New York; (+) Sotheby's, London, June 26, 1963, lot 96 (#9,000 to Patch)
with Leonard Koetser, London (Spring Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, April-May 1964, no. 19; advertised in Apollo, April 1964, p. xli, illustrated in color); purchased by Miss Tully on April 23, 1964 for #16,500 ($46,200)

Literature

A. Morassi, Guardi, 1973, I, p. 405, under no. 510, as possibly by Giacomo Guardi

Lot Essay

The Punta di Dogana, viewed from a variety of angles, was one of Guardi's favorite subjects (see Morassi, op. cit., I, pp. 403-6, nos. 497-513; II, figs. 494-503). The positions of the boats in the present painting are loosely related to those in Morassi no. 499, fig. 495 (sold at Christie's, London, April 21, 1989, lot 95)