Studies for Groups of Walking Dressed Figures

Signature: Signed in pen and brown ink at lower left: F.co Guardi

Junius Spencer Morgan (American); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York (American), February 18, 1921, lot 50; Richard Ederheimer (American)

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Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 127, pp. 58, 62, 84, ill.

James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 50, ill.

E. P. Richardson Venice: 1700-1800. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts and the John Herron Art Museum. Detroit, 1952, cat. no. 37, p. 35.

James Byam Shaw The Guardi Family. Exh. cat.: The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. Houston, 1958, cat. no. 35.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 47, fig. no. 47, 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, note 43.

Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 205, fig. no. 205, ill.

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