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Capriccio with Ruins

Francesco Guardi
1712-1793

Capriccio with Ruins

ca. 1760-1770
12 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches (325 x 223 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk.
2017.112

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at lower right in black chalk: "Francesco Guardi".
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department