Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)

A capriccio with ruined arches

Details

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
A capriccio with ruined arches
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark crowned cartouche
353 x 235 mm.

Provenance

Georges Blumenthal, and by inheritance to
Baroness Van Wrangell; Sotheby's London, 26 November 1970, lot 67.

Literature

A. Morassi, Guardi, Tutti i Disegni, Venice, 1975, p. 173.

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Art Vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, 1978, no. 176.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dessins Vénitiens du XVIIIème siècle, 1983, no. 107.

Lot Essay

Related to a picture formerly belonging to Lady Leyton and now in a private collection, New York, A. Morassi, Guardi, I Dipinti, Venice, 1984, I, no. 782, fig. 713. A drawing of the same composition was with Cailleux in 1971, while another without figures is in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, and a third in the Museo Correr, A. Morassi, Tutti i Disegni, Venice, 1975, (respectively) nos. 542, 544, and 573, illustrated. The composition was later re-used by Giacomo in a drawing exhibited at Springfield, Museum of Fine Arts, Francesco Guardi, 1937, no. 46.

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