Description
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.
Provenance
Sold by Lucille Cohen, London, to the Marquis de Biron (Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron; died 1939), Paris, 1909 [according to Paris 1952]; by descent to his nephew, the Duc de Talleyrand, Paris, by 1958 [according to Morassi 1958]. Sold by Rosenberg and Steibel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.
Accession Number
29410
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
