This large and exceptionally luminous view of a villa in the Veneto was used by Francesco Guardi in a painting of approximately the same dimensions, now in a private collection. A fairly exact copy after this painting, drawn by Francesco himself or by his son Giacomo, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1950.168). This copy bears an annotation that identifies the now-destroyed villa: "View of the Seat of S. E. Loredano at Paese near Treviso at present in the possession of John Strange Esq.r. N. B. grass ground within the Fence, without the post road from Treviso to Bassan". John Strange (1732-1799), a patron of the artist, was British Resident in Venice from November 1773 to 1790.
Francesco made several drawings at the Villa Loredan. A smaller sketch of the entrance gate and façade is in the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (inv. 57.250). A view from the front windows of the villa is in the Fodor Museum, Amsterdam (repr. by Morassi 1975, no. 425), and a view from the back windows is in the Ashmolean Museum (WA1937.187). Byam Shaw has suggested that the Met’s drawing probably dates from 1778, when the painter undertook a journey from Venice to a family property in the Val di Sole. (F.R.)
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Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, touches of white gouache, over black chalk
Dimensions:15-9/16 x 30-1/4 in. (39.5 x 76.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.69
Marking: Watermark: [Faustino Calcinardi (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Peirpont Morgan Library, Drawings from New York Collections, vol. 3..., see Exh., watermark no. 43)]
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tiepolo and his Contemporaries," March 14–April 24, 1938.
New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Landscape Drawings and Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne," January 31, 1953–April 11, 1953.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
Ca' Rezzonico, Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice. "Splendori del Settecento Veneziano," May 26, 1995–June 30, 1995.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 66, ill.
"Settecento inedito (II). VIII - Quattro "Ville" del Guardi." Arte Veneta. vol. 4, Venice, 1950, p. 54.
James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 30, ill.
Felice Stampfle Landscape Drawings and Water-colors, Bruegel to Cézanne. Exh. cat. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 1953, no. 20.
Karl Theodore Parker Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Vol. II: Italian Schools. Oxford, 1956, cat. no. 1015, 1016 (under), pp. 510-11.
Karl Theodore Parker Disegni veneti di Oxford Exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Venice, 1958, cat. no. under no. 114, p. 74.
Karl Theodore Parker and James Byam Shaw Canaletto e Guardi Mostra dei disegni, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Venice, 1962, cat. no. under no. 108, p. 77.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 46, fig. no. 46, ill.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 207, 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. 14, pp. 247, 250-51, ill.
Everett Fahy The Wrightsman Collection. vol. 5, London, 1973, fig. no. 7, pp. 112-3, ill.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under no. 681, p. 437.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 578, p. 124.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 422, fig. no. 424, ill.
Romance and Reality. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1978, cat. no. 36, fig. no. 36, ill.
Roberta J. M. Olson Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Exh. cat. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1983, cat. no. under no. 21, pp. 73-4.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Exh. cat. 3 vols., Venezia, 1983, cat. no. under no. 644, p. 159.
Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 93, fig. no. 93, pp. 108-12, ill.
Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat., Museo del Settecento veneziano - Ca' Rezzonico, Gallerie dell'Accademia and Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice. Ed. by Giovanni Nepi Sciré, and Giandomenico Romanelli, Milan, 1995, (entry by Annalisa Perissa Torrini), cat. no. 180, fig. no. 180, pp. 457-8, ill.
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