Lot 81
  • 81

Guglielmo Ciardi

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Guglielmo Ciardi
  • An Afternoon on a Venetian Canal
  • signed G. Ciardi and indistinctly inscribed Venedi... (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 3/4 by 30 1/2 in.
  • 47.6 by 77.4 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired circa 1920)
Thence by descent through the family, Old Lyme, Connecticut

Condition

Unlined. Small chips of loss in sky. Under UV: minor reinforcements to select figures and side of boat closest to the viewer, a few scattered spots of inpainting in water.
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Catalogue Note

The present work's inscription likely reads Venedig  suggesting Ciardi intended the work for sale in Germany.  A work titled Kanal in Venedig was exhibited at the VII Internationale Kunstausstellung in Munich, 1901 (no. 455).  A composition which captures the same view but from a slightly different angle is illustrated in Nico Stringa, Guglielmo Ciardi, catalogo generale dei dipinti, Treviso, 2007, p. 247, no. 257.