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Francesco Guardi Venice 1712 - 1793
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Description
- Francesco Guardi
- view of the piazzetta, looking towards san giorgio maggiore, venice
bears inscription in brown ink: Guardi.
pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash over black chalk
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. Bick,
By whom sold (anonymously), New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1985, lot 152
By whom sold (anonymously), New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1985, lot 152
Exhibited
New York, William Beadleston, Inc., and Memphis, Tenn., USA, The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Affinities, 1982, cat. no. 33
Catalogue Note
James Byam Shaw, in a letter to Julien Stock (22 February 1976), confirmed the attribution of this drawing to Francesco Guardi. He dated it to the artist's early period when he was much influenced by Canaletto, and compared the figures to those in two drawings of the Piazzetta S. Marco with the Basilica and Campanile (see A. Morassi, Guardi, Tutti i Disegni, Venice 1975, figs. 324, 326).