Lagoon Capriccio with a Tower

Marking: Watermark: [Bird in coat of arms] (not in Briquet, nor in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: III, The 18th Century in Italy, New York 1971.)

Baron Mathey; Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron

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Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 63, pp. 38, 80, ill.

James Byam Shaw "The Biron Collection of Venetian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum Journal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 3, New York, 1971, fig. no. 17, III, pp. 252-3, ill.

Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under no. 828, p. 464.

Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 345, p. 110.

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