Capriccio: The Lagoon
Francesco Guardi · After 1770
Provenance
Ownership history
- S. Tozzi [this and other information derives from Morassi 1973]; sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, June 1919. Private collection, California. Wildenstein, New York. Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, by 1964; given to Art Institute, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1963–64, (Chicago, 1964), p. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago Calendar, March 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 11 (ill.).
- Antonio Morassi, Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice, 1973, vol. 1, pp. 278–79, 480, cat. no. 921; vol. 2, fig. 816.
- John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 160.
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