Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); graphite (verso)
Dimensions:11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.80
Miss Lucy Cohen(?); Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tiepolo and his Contemporaries," March 14–April 24, 1938.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 62, ill.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Drawings and Related Paintings by Francesco Guardi." Art Quarterly. vol. 2, 1939, pp. 271, 274, no.
Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 73, pp. 42, 43, 81, 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, p. 84, under no. 199.
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, pp. 253, 255.
Michael Levey National Gallery Catalogues. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools. London, 1971, cat. no. under no. 2519, pp. 125-6.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under nos. 791-2, p. 457.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 462, p. 117.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 553, fig. no. 542, 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. 106, fig. no. 106, pp.124-25, ill.
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