Capriccio of a Lagoon with Figures and a Ruined Arch Beyond
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Francesco Guardi
Venice 1712 - 1793 Cannaregio
Capriccio of a Lagoon with Figures and a Ruined Arch Beyond
oil on panel
panel: 6 ⅜ by 8 ⅞ in.; 16.2 by 22.5 cm
framed: 9 ⅝ by 11 ¾ in.; 24.4 by 29.8 cm
Luigi Grassi (1858-1937), Florence;
With Schoneman Galleries, New York, by 1948;
Rudolph J. Heinemann (1901-1975), New York;
Mrs. Gilbert Kahn, Westbury, New York;
With Eugene V. Thaw, New York;
Private collection, Mexico City;
Anonymous sale ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2004, lot 57;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
A Gallery of XVIII Century Venetian Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Louisville 1948, n.p., cat. no. 11, reproduced fig. 11;
A. Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice 1973, vol. I, pp. 482, 486, under cat. nos. 929. 947;
A. Morassi, Guardi: I dipinti, Venice 1984, vol. I, pp. 482, 486, under cat. nos. 929, 947.
Springfield, Massachusetts, G.W.V. Smith Art Museum, long-term loan;
Louisville, Kentucky, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Eighteenth Century Venetian Paintings, 2 - 29 June 1948, no. 11 (with its pendant, lent by Schoneman Galleries, New York);
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025.
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