
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch
Francesco Guardi · 1770/89
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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