The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower left: "S. Giorgio Maggiore"; signed at lower right: "Giacomo de Guardi F."

Marking: Cropped watermark, probably part of "coat of arms": not in Briquet or in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III, The 18th Century in Italy, New York 1971.

Mrs. Gutekunst- London; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.; Harry G. Sperling

James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 79, p. 80, ill.

Regina Shoolman Five Centuries of Drawings Exh. cat., October - November. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1953, cat. no. 75, ill.

James Byam Shaw The Guardi Family. Exh. cat.: The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. Houston, 1958, cat. no. 45, ill.

Janet Cox-Rearick Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings: A Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., Wellesley, Massachusetts, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, and New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries. Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1960, cat. no. 31.

Karl Theodore Parker and James Byam Shaw Canaletto e Guardi Mostra dei disegni, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Venice, 1962, cat. no. 110, p. 79.

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, cat. no. 79, pp. 50, 80, ill.

"Departmental Accessions: Drawings." in Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1974 - June 30, 1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 105, New York, 1975, p. 50.

Terisio Pignatti Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Exh. cat. 3 vols., Venezia, 1983, pp. 247, 253.

James Byam Shaw and George Knox The Robert Lehman Collection, vol. VI, Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings. vol. 6, New York, 1987, cat. no. 53, p. 67.

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. 116, fig. no. 116, p. 133, ill.