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A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch
Provenance
Sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 16, 1969 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
Wellesley College Art Museum, Mass., 1969, cat. 7. London, P. and D. Colnaghi, "Old Master Drawings," May 28–June 13, 1969. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, January 14–April 15, 1971. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 1974–April 1975, p. 56, cat. 120 (ill.), cat. by Terisio Pignatti. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 31. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 64-65, cat. 36 (ill.).
Publications
“Old Master Drawings,” Apollo 89 (June 1969), p. 470, no. 7. Antonio Morassi, Antonio e Francesco Guardi 2 (Alfieri, 1973), p. 489, under no. 970.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Guardi / Italian, 1712-1793
- Date
- 1770/89
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.116
More by Francesco Guardi in museum collections
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