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Francesco Guardi Venice 1712 - 1793
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Description
- Francesco Guardi
- A pastoral landscape with peasants hoeing and a washerwoman before some trees
- oil on canvas
Provenance
With Kunsthandel Xavier Scheidwimmer, Munich;
From whom acquired by the present owner in the 1970s.
From whom acquired by the present owner in the 1970s.
Catalogue Note
The composition is very closely related to two other paintings by Guardi, both of which have an additional figure of a horseman lower left: one (44 by 53 cm.) is in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens; and the other (20.7 by 27.3 cm.) is in a New York private collection (both published by A. Morassi, Guardi. I dipinti, Venice 1993, vol. I, p. 495, cat. nos. 1000 and 1001, reproduced vol. II, figs. 884 and 886). Given the fluid brushwork in all three works a dating in the 1770s for the present canvas seems likely.
The attriubtion to Guardi was endorsed by Antonio Morassi in a photostat expertise, dated March 1972, in which the painting is also dated to Guardi's mature period.