A Castle on Fire by the Sea

細節

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
A Castle on Fire by the Sea
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents
199 x 301 mm.

來源

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 23 March 1972, lot 131, illustrated (£2,300 to Fairfax).

出版

A. Morassi, Guardi, I dipinti, Milan, 1984, p. 439, under no. 692.
A. Morassi, Guardi, I disegni, Milan, 1984 (ed. 1973), no. 442, fig. 443.

拍品專文

A study for a slightly larger picture in the Moizzi Collection in Milan, A. Morassi, I dipinti, no. 692, fig. 651. The picture was dated by Antonio Morassi to the last years of Guardi's career, possibly after December 1789, when the church of San Marcuola in Venice burnt. Morassi also suggests that the composition could be inspired by a Dutch painting, such as Troy Burning by Jacob de Wet, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig.
Another sheet of the same composition and size, also datable to Guardi's last years, is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, A. Morassi, I disegni, no. 441, fig. 444.