Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712-1793)

A bridge over a mountainous landscape (recto); View of the Piazza San Marco towards San Geminiano (verso)

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Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712-1793)
A bridge over a mountainous landscape (recto); View of the Piazza San Marco towards San Geminiano (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto); red chalk (verso)
(22.7 x 33.7 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Jean-Paul Richter, Amsterdam; Frederick Müller & Co., 27 may 1913, lot 307 (6,700 francs to Pierre Decourcelle).
Pierre Decourcelle; Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 313.

Literature

A. Morassi, Guardi: Tutti i disegni, Milan, 1975, no. 606, fig. 583.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Tiepolo et Guardi, 1953, no. 93.
Paris, Orangerie, Venise au XVIIIe siècle, 1971, no. 104.

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Lot Essay

According to Morassi, this drawing can be related to a group executed by Guardi after a trip to the Trentino region in the fall of 1778. Guardi's family had property in Val di Sole, and the 1778 visit was his first since his youth. For other drawings made during that trip see Morassi, op. cit., nos. 416-18, figs. 417-420a). These sketches were made into more elaborated compositions when he returned to his studio. Guardi made another drawing in pen, ink and wash of the same view as on the verso of the present sheet which is in the Musée Petit Palais, Paris (Morassi, op. cit., no. 328, fig. 331).

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