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Francesco Guardi Venice 1712 - 1793
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Description
- Francesco Guardi
- a capriccio with a ruined arch and a figure
- inscribed on the verso with the incomplete text of a letter: ind:Illa Sig: /In verità V.S farebbe diventa..sua, ed ino fine della...altro...
- pen and brown ink and wash
Catalogue Note
Guardi painted a number of versions and variants of this composition, incorporating different combinations of elements seen here, such as the arch with a view to a house, the wall to the right and the figures (see A. Morassi, Guardi, Venice 1973, vol. I, nos. 966, 967, 968, 970, 971; vol. II., figs. 846, 850, 851, 852, 855). This very quick sketch with its fluent use of wash cannot, however, be directly linked with any of these paintings. The use of wash is very similar to that in a sketch of a Sottoportico in the Correr Museum, Venice (see A. Morassi, Guardi, I Disegni, Venice 1975, no. 575, fig. 564).
Sold in an attractive carved and gilded eighteenth-century French frame.