Dice Players in a Venetian Square

Marking: [Collector's mark at bottom right (Lugt 421)]
Watermark: [graduated triple crescent (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art and THe Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from New York Collections, vol. 3..., see Exh., watermark no. 14)]

Alfred Beurdeley II (French); Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron

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Vittorio Moschini Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1952, fig. no. 183, ill.

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