Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Three Sketches: Buildings by Canal with Boats, Landscape with Buldings on Hillside, Buildings with Portico (verso) by Francesco Guardi
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Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Three Sketches: Buildings by Canal with Boats, Landscape with Buldings on Hillside, Buildings with Portico (verso)

Francesco Guardi · c. 1770

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Hans Calmann, London, to the Art Institute, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 20 (recto and verso).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 133, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (recto).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985 (recto and verso).

Literature

Published references

  • Terisio Pignatti, "Nuovi disegni di figura dei Guardi," Critica d'Arte XI (December 1964), p. 72 (ill.) (recto).
  • Lu Bro, Drawing: A Studio Guide (New York, 1978), p. 180 (ill) (recto).
  • DeMaffei, "La questione Guardi: Precisazione e Aggiunte," Arte in Europa, p. 859 (ill.) (recto).
  • Antonio Morassi, Guardi: I disegni (Venice, 1975), p. 101, no. 122, fig. 125 (recto).
  • Alice Binion, Antonio and Francesco Guardi (New York, 1976), no. 25 (ill.) (recto).
  • Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 84-85, no. 133, pl. 139 (recto).
  • Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings II (Chicago, 1980), nos. 1C10 and 1C11 (recto).

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