Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); framing lines in pen and brown ink Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at the left, top and bottom border in graphite at the right border (verso)
Dimensions:12-5/16 x 17-13/16 in. (31.2 x 45.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.74
Marking: [Three crescents at the upper right, letters GF at lower left]
Miss Lucy Cohen(according to the 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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Materials and Techniques," April 29–July 26, 2021.
George A. Simonson Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793. London, 1904, cat. no. 286, pp. 59, 99.
Giuseppe Fiocco Guardi. Florence, 1923, fig. no. 83, ill.
Goudstikker Galleries, Amsterdam Catalogue des nouvelles acquisitions. vol. 38, Amsterdam, April-May, 1930, Painting formerly in Kellner collection, cat. no. 23, fig. no. 23, ill.
A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian art held in the galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, 1930. David Lindsay Lord Bainiel, Sir Kenneth Clark, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, cat. no. 788, p. 359.
Giulio Lorenzetti Frescos Exhibition Ca' Rezzonico, Venice. Exh. cat. Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, 1938, cat. no. 121, fig. no. 56, ill.
Meesterwerken uit vier Eeuwen Exh. cat. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1938, cat. no. 188, p. 46.
Harry B. Wehle Tiepolo and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1938, cat. no. 68, ill.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Tiepolo and His Contemporaries: An Exhibition." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 33, New York, March 1938, p. 66.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Drawings and Related Paintings by Francesco Guardi." Art Quarterly. vol. 2, 1939, fig. no. 9, pp. 272, 275, 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. 47 (vol.1), fig. no. 47, ill.
Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 128, pp. 59, 64, 84,, ill.
Hans Tietze European Master Drawings in the United States. J. J. Augustin, New York, 1947, Recto illustrated., cat. no. 96, ill.
James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 40, p. 68, ill.
Vittorio Moschini Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1952, fig. no. 163, p. 26, ill.
Carlo L. Ragghianti "Epiloghi Guardeschi" Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. vol. 22, Pisa, 1953, cat. no. 26, fig. no. 26, p. 24, ill.
Vittorio Moschini Francesco Guardi. 2. Milan, 1956, cat. no. 68, fig. no. 68, ill.
Vittorio Moschini Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1963, cat. no. 163, fig. no. 163, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni veneti del Settecento. Exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Venice, 1964, cat. no. under no. 91, p. 65.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni dei Guardi. Exh. cat. Florence, 1965, cat. no. 69, fig. no. 69, p. 324, ill.
Pietro Zampetti Mostra dei Guardi. Exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Venice, 1965, cat. no. 69, p. 324, ill.
Sir Denis Mahon et. al. Problemi guardeschi Atti del convegno di studi promosso dalla Mostra dei Guardi, Venezia 13-14 septembre 1965. Venice, 1967, fig. no. 146, pp. 34-5, note 2, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni dei Guardi. Florence, 1967, cat. no. LIII, ill.
Rolf Kultzen Francesco Guardi in der Alten Pinakothek, München Nachtrag zum Bildband. Munich, 1968, pp. 10, 11, 14, 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. 210, 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, fig. no. 13, pp. 247, 249, ill.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, pp. 369, 444.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 768, fig. no. 768a, p. 135, ill.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 314, 481, fig. no. 314, 479, p. 188, ill.
James Byam Shaw "Guardi Drawings." in The Burlington Magazine. vol. 118, 1976, p. 859, note 1.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Exh. cat. 3 vols., Venezia, 1983, cat. no. under no. 655, pp. 169-70.
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. 90, fig. no. 90, pp. 103, 106-107, ill.
Dario Succi Francesco Guardi: itinerario dell'avventura artistica. Milan, 1993, fig. no. fig. 139, pp. 139-143, ill.
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