Francesco Guardi

Recto: View of the Piazzetta, Venice, looking towards S. Giorgio Maggiore Verso: Study for a Madonna and Child and an adoring Saint, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)

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January 26, 04:31 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection formed by the Duc de Talleyrand

Francesco Guardi

1712 - 1793

Recto: View of the Piazzetta, Venice, looking towards S. Giorgio Maggiore

Verso: Study for a Madonna and Child and an adoring Saint, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto);

pen and brown ink (verso)

243 by 330 mm; 9½ by 13 in.

Cavendish-Bentinck Collection;
Marie-Pierre-Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand (1859-1937), Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt;
from whose heirs acquired by the British Rail Pension Fund;
with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox Ltd, London,
from whom acquired in December 1993 by Patrick and Mavis Walker, London

A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan 1958, p. 29, no. 65, reproduced fig. 65;
A. Morassi, Guardi. Tutti I Disegni Di Antonio, Francesco E Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975, p. 138, cat. no. 338, reproduced fig. 335