A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch by Francesco Guardi
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A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch

Francesco Guardi · 1770/89

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 16, 1969 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Wellesley College Art Museum, Mass., 1969, cat. 7.
  • London, P. and D. Colnaghi, "Old Master Drawings," May 28–June 13, 1969.
  • Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, January 14–April 15, 1971.
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Venetian Drawings from American Collections," September 1974–April 1975, p. 56, cat. 120 (ill.), cat. by Terisio Pignatti.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 31.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 64-65, cat. 36 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • “Old Master Drawings,” Apollo 89 (June 1969), p. 470, no. 7.
  • Antonio Morassi, Antonio e Francesco Guardi 2 (Alfieri, 1973), p. 489, under no. 970.

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