Francesco Guardi
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Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
View with an Obelisk and Figures. Verso: Sketch for a decoration with column, festoons, and a loggia
Pen and brown ink, with brown and gray wash, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
9 1/16 x 5 11/16 inches (232 x 145 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1977.54
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Provenance:
Conde Nast, New York; sale , New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1943, lot 380; Seligman, Rey & Co., New York; from whom purchased in 1943 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 266-267.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection, New York, 1976, no. 147, repr.
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