* Francesco Guardi Venice 1712 - 1793

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Description

Francesco Guardi
capriccio of ruins by an architrave
pen and brown ink on buff paper

Provenance

John and Alice Steiner

Catalogue Note

This drawing appears to be a study for a painting of the same subject by Francesco Guardi, in the Hays-Smith collection, Burlingame, which Morassi dates to Guardi's late period (see A. Morassi, Guardi: i dipinti, Venice 1993, p. 448, cat. no. 741, reproduced fig. 687).