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Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
Capriccio with Ruins
ca. 1760-1770
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk.
12 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches (325 x 223 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.112
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso at lower right in black chalk: "Francesco Guardi".
Provenance:
Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur (Lugt 740); sale Geneva, Nicholas Rauch, 1960, p. 70, no. 211, repr.; William H. Schab, New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Schab, William H, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 185, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 51.
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