Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Francesco Guardi
The Return of the Bucintoro from S. Nicolò di Lido
Auction Closed
January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Francesco Guardi
Venice 1712 - 1793
The Return of the Bucintoro from S. Nicolò di Lido
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk;
bears numbering in pen and ink;
bears old inscription in pen and brown ink, verso: Guardi’s Views of Venice L…
420 by 700 mm; 16 ½ by 27 ⅝ in
Sigismond Bardac (1856 - 1919), Paris,
his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 10 May 1920, lot 6 (reproduced);
purchased at the sale by an ancestor of the present owner
his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 10 May 1920, lot 6 (reproduced);
purchased at the sale by an ancestor of the present owner
J. Byam Shaw, ‘Unpublished Guardi Drawings’, The Art Quarterly, XVII, no. 2, (Summer) 1954, p. 165A;
A. Morassi, Guardi: I Dipinti, Venice 1973, p. 363, under cat. 284;
A. Morassi, Guardi: I Disegni, Venice 1975, pp. 128-129, cat. 290, reproduced fig. 292
A. Morassi, Guardi: I Dipinti, Venice 1973, p. 363, under cat. 284;
A. Morassi, Guardi: I Disegni, Venice 1975, pp. 128-129, cat. 290, reproduced fig. 292