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Fantastic Landscape

ca. 1765
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 644
This imaginary landscape, or capriccio, is one of three in The Met collection from the castle of Colloredo di Monte Albano, near Udine. Guardi seems to have adjusted their sizes and shapes in the course of painting or immediately thereafter, probably in order to fit into decorative plaster surrounds. He composed these picturesque fantasies through combinations of rocky outcroppings, slanting tree trunks, and classical ruins, which are populated by fishermen and their families.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fantastic Landscape
  • Artist: Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice)
  • Date: ca. 1765
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: Irregular, 61 1/4 x 74 1/2 in. (155.6 x 189.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.225.3
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Fantastic Landscape, Francesco Guardi Italian, Oil on canvas
Fantastic Landscape
Francesco Guardi
ca. 1765
Fantastic Landscape, Francesco Guardi Italian, Oil on canvas
Fantastic Landscape
Francesco Guardi
ca. 1765
Capriccio with Roman Ruins, Francesco Guardi Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink drawn by the artist; sheet glued onto secondary paper support
Capriccio with Roman Ruins
Francesco Guardi
18th century
The Arcade of the Libreria, Looking Toward San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
The Arcade of the Libreria, Looking Toward San Giorgio Maggiore
Francesco Guardi
1712–93
Lagoon Capriccio with an Obelisk, Francesco Guardi Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
Lagoon Capriccio with an Obelisk
Francesco Guardi
ca. 1750–70

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