Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over charcoal (recto). Framing lines in pen and brown ink; charcoal (verso)
Dimensions:sheet: 9 1/16 x 15 1/2 in. (23 x 39.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.77
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower right: Guardi f. On verso in graphite: Villa di Correr a Fiesso vicino a Strà.
Baron Mathey(According to Biron inventory); Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947, cat. no. 61, ill.
Rodolfo Pallucchini "Disegni veneziani del Settecento in America." Arte Veneta. vol. 2, Venice, 1948, p. 158.
Michelangelo Muraro "An Altar-piece and other Figure Paintings by Francesco Guardi" The Burlington Magazine. vol. 100, 1958, fig. no. 15, pp. 8, 10, 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. 206, 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, pp. 252, 255.
Francesco Valcanover Un nuovo stendardo di Francesco Guardi: Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Antonio Morassi. Venice, 1971, fig. no. 3, pp. 318-9, ill.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 783, p. 136.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 158, 431, fig. no. 161, 437, ill.
Alice Binion Antonio e Francesco Guardi: Their Life and Milieu. With a Catalogue of their Figure Drawings. New York and London, 1976, cat. no. 33, fig. no. 150, pp. 262, 427, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni antichi del Museo Correr di Venezia. Exh. cat. 3 vols., Venezia, 1983, cat. no. under no. 644.
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. 94, fig. no. 94, p. 113, ill.
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