Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso) — Francesco Guardi. Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso), 1712–93. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso)

by Francesco Guardi

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Artist: Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice)
Date: 1712–93
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); pen and light brown ink for costumed figures; dark brown ink for the other figures; in graphite, drawing of a head in profile (verso)
Dimensions: 7 3/16 x 4 1/2in. (18.3 x 11.5cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession no.: 37.165.81

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