Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)

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Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from the Grand Canal, Venice

black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, watermark CFA under crown
282 x 445mm.
Provenance
W. Esdaile (L. 2617); Christie's, 20 June 1840, lot 457 'Santa Maria delle Salute, and the Dogana, with gondolas and figures - capital' (2 1/2 gns. to Buchanan)

Lot Essay

Drawings from a comparable viewpoint are in the Ashmolean Museum and in a private collection, Paris, A. Morassi, Guardi-I Disegni, Venice, 1984, nos. 356-7, figs. 358-9. Guardi painted a number of pictures of this view, the closest of which is at Houston, A. Morassi, L'Opera Completa di Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice, 1973, I, no. 299, illustrated

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