FRANCESCO GUARDI
Venice: The Bacino di San Marco with San Giorgio Maggiore, the Punta di Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over an underdrawing in black chalk. The buildings in the background identified with the letters A to I, faintly inscribed in brown ink, partly erased.
473 x 802 mm
18 5/8 x 31 5/8 in
18 5/8 x 31 5/8 in
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 2004, lots 87 and 87A (catalogued as Giacomo Guardi, but sold as Francesco Guardi following saleroom notices);
Private collection, Paris;
With Jean-Luc Baroni, London, 2005;
From whom acquired by a private collector;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 5 July 2017, lot 36 (as Francesco Guardi; unsold).
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paysages d’Italie, 1947, no. 201 ("L’Entrée du Grand Canal, à
Venise, vue du Palais des Doges"), as Antonio Guardi.
New York & London, Jean-Luc Baroni, An Exhibition of Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 10
May - 3 June 2005, nos. 28 and 29.