Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions:13 11/16 x 11in. (34.8 x 27.9cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.79
Marking: Watermark: [Coat of arms] (similar in type to no. 39 in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: III, The 18th Century in Italy, New York 1971.)
Miss Lucy Cohen(according to Biron inventory); 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. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
Daniel Cottier, Galerie Durand-Ruel Art Collection of Daniel Cottier (1838-1891) -- Art collections
Durand-Ruel Sale cat. Paris, May 27-28, 1892, p. 20-1, ill.
Drawings by Old Masters. Savile Gallery, London, 1929, cat. no. 19, fig. no. 19, p. 10, ill.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 61, ill.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Drawings and Related Paintings by Francesco Guardi." Art Quarterly. vol. 2, 1939, fig. no. 1, pp. 266-267, 271, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 48 (vol.1), fig. no. 48, ill.
Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 96, p. 82, ill.
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums Seventy Master Drawings: A Loan Exhibition Arranged in Honor of Professor Paul J. Sachs on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday Exh. cat., Harvar Art Museums, Cambridge (November 27, 1948 - January 6, 1949). Cambridge, 1948, no. 48.
One Hundred Master Drawings. To accompany "Seventy master drawings," a loan exhibition at the Fogg Museum of Art, Nov. 1948-Jan. 1949, held on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Paul J. Sachs, and 30 additional drawings from the museum's collections
Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. edited by Agnes Mongan, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1949, pp. 104-5, ill.
Rodolfo Pallucchini "Note per Giacomo Guardi." Arte veneta. vol. 3, Venice, 1949, fig. no. 150, pp. 132-3, ill.
Michael Levey National Gallery Catalogues, The 18th Century Italian Schools. London, 1956, fig. no. p. 38, pp. 58-59, ill.
Treasures from the Metropolitan. Exh. cat., Inaugural Exhibition of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Oct. 25, 1970 - Jan. 3, 1971. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1970, cat. no. 49, 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. 202, 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, p. 253.
Michael Levey National Gallery Catalogues. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools. London, 1971, cat. no. under no. 2523, pp. 130-2.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under no. 784, p. 456.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 548, fig. no. 537, ill.
James Byam Shaw "Guardi Drawings." in The Burlington Magazine. vol. 118, 1976, p. 859.
Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, de Ramsès à Picasso.. Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, May 15 - Sept. 1,1981, cat. no. 137, fig. no. 137.
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. 104, fig. no. 104, pp. 121-22, ill.
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