Medium:Black chalk, pen and brown ink, over black chalk on beige paper (recto); black chalk (verso); framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:7 11/16 x 10 1/16in. (19.5 x 25.6cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Object Number:1975.131.31
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Guardi"; annotated in pen and brown ink on verso, "Guardi."
Lady Harcourt; Harry G. Sperling
Toledo Museum of Art. "Four Centuries of Venetian Painting," March 8, 1940–March 31, 1940.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–75," October 1, 1975–January 4, 1976.
John Lee Clarke Francesco Guardi. 1712-1793 Exh. cat. Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 1937, cat. no. nos. 32, 33, ill.
Hans Tietze Four Centuries of Venetian Painting Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1940, no. 80, ill.
James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 48, ill.
Regina Shoolman Five Centuries of Drawings Exh. cat., October - November. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1953, cat. no. 72, ill.
James Byam Shaw "Guardi at the Royal Academy." in The Burlington Magazine. vol. 97, London, 1955, fig. no. 16 (detail), p. 14, ill.
James Byam Shaw The Guardi Family. Exh. cat.: The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. Houston, 1958, cat. no. 36, ill.
Age of Elegance, The Rococo and its Effect. Exh cat., April 25 to June 14. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1959, cat. no. 211, fig. no. 211, 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. 28, fig. no. pl. 12, ill.
Pietro Zampetti Mostra dei Guardi. Exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Venice, 1965, cat. no. 24, p. 313, 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. 188, ill.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under no. 524, p. 408.
Jacob Bean European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 223, fig. no. 225, 226, ill.
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. 98, fig. no. 98, pp. 115-16, ill.
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