Porticoes in a courtyard, with two figures

Details

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
Porticoes in a courtyard, with two figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on blue paper
8¾ x 8¼ in. (222 x 208 mm.)

Provenance

Duplessis.
Jacques Guérin.
Nicholas Owen.
Duc de Talleyrand.

Literature

A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 61.
A. Morassi, Guardi, Tutti i disegni, Venice, 1975 (and revised edition of 1984), no. 568, fig. 560.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paysages d'Italie, 1947.

Lot Essay

This composition is loosely based on the courtyard of the Palazzo Zorzi in Venice. Francesco Guardi drew two further drawings based on the courtyard, albeit less developed, which are respectively in the Correr Museum, Venice, and in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (A. Morassi, op. cit., nos. 565-6, figs. 558-9). Morassi dates the drawings to 1770-80.
Francesco's son Giacomo executed two drawings on the same theme, A. Morassi, op. cit., figs. 641 and 644.

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