Architectural Fantasy: Figures on a Grand Staircase (recto); Studies for the Frame of a Shaped Field (verso)

Marking: Watermark: [a sun] (not in Briquet, nor in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: III, The 18th Century in Italy, New York 1971)

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. 63, 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. 50 (vol.1), fig. no. 50, ill.

Knoedler and Co. Gallery Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries. A Benefit Exhibition of Columbia University for the Scholarship Fund of the Department of Fine Arts and Archaeology. New York, 1959, cat. no. 40, fig. no. 44, 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.

Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 556, fig. no. 546, 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. 109, fig. no. 109, pp. 126-27, ill.