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

1712–93
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso)
  • 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)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1937
  • Object Number: 37.165.81
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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