Francesco Guardi
A pair of capriccio river landscapes with figures in the foreground
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Francesco Guardi
Venice 1712–1793 Cannaregio
A pair of capriccio river landscapes with figures in the foreground
a pair, both oil on canvas
each unframed: 69.6 x 76.7 cm.; 27⅜ x 30¼ in.
each framed: 79.8 x 86.9 cm.; 31⅜ x 34¼ in.
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Private collection, Europe;
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Private European Collector’), London, Replica Shoes ’s, 22 April 2009, lot 77 (as attributed to Francesco Guardi);
Acquired subsequently by the present owner.
This atmospheric pair of landscapes are close in execution to a number of works painted by Francesco Guardi towards the end of his career in the 1770s and 1780s, namely the river landscape, of very similar dimensions, in a private collection, Lugano,1 or the signed canvas in The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (inv. no. ГЭ-4305).2
We are grateful to Charles Beddington for endorsing the attribution to Francesco Guardi on the basis of digital images.
1 A. Morassi, Guardi. I dipinti, Venice 1993, vol. I, pp. 494–95, no. 998a, reproduced vol. II, fig. 882.
2 Morassi 1993, vol. I, p. 494, no. 998, reproduced vol. II, fig. 880; https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/32634?lng=en
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