FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

A capriccio of a marine inlet with two fishermen dragging in a net

Details

FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
A capriccio of a marine inlet with two fishermen dragging in a net
pen and brown ink, brown wash, ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark 'G[?]V'
5 1⁄8 x 6 ¾ in. (13 x 17.2 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 174.
with Galerie Kornfeld, Bern (Graphik Handzeichnungen Alter Meister, 1995, no. 55, ill.).

Literature

R. Pallucchini, I disegni del Guardi al Museo Correr di Venezia, Venice, 1943, p. 56, under no. 137b.

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Lot Essay

The drawing is characteristic of Francesco Guardi’s fluid and spontaneous style. A larger but similar composition is in the Museum Correr in Venice (inv. class III no. 1211; A. Morassi, Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice, 1975, p. 190, no. 655, ill.).

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