Gateway Near a Landing Bridge

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.

Gateway Near a Landing Bridge

Francesco Guardi

1780/85

Accession Number

29413

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

30.4 × 45.6 cm (12 × 18 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation