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FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

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ID 1086605
Lot 29 | FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

The Holy Family

oil on canvas

9 ½ x 7 5⁄8 in. (24.1 x 19.5 cm.)





Provenance

with Umberto Pini, Bologna, 1948.

with Nicholas M. Acquavella (1898-1987), New York, 1948.

Walter P. Chrysler (1909-1988), New York, by 1956.

Lore Heinemann (1914-1996) and Rudolf Heinemann (1901-1975), by 1974; [Sold for the Benefit of The Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington], Christie's, London, 4 July 1997, lot 116, where acquired after the sale.



Literature

M. Goering, Francesco Guardi, Vienna, 1944, pp. 17 and 77, no. 13.

G. Fiocco, 'Una pittura di Guardi', Lettere e Arti, I, no. 2, October 1945, pp. 10-13, illustrated.

V. Moschini, Francesco Guardi, 2nd ed., Milan, 1956, p. 14, fig. 51.

D. Gioseffi, 'Per una datazione tardissima delle Storie di Tobiolo in S. Raffaele', Emporium, no. 126, September 1957, p. 109.

R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venice and Rome, 1960, p. 136, fig. 343.

E. Martini, La Pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venice, 1964, p. 264, note 247.

R. Pallucchini, 'Note sulla Mostra dei Guardi', Arte Veneta, 1965, p. 234.

I. Fenyö, 'An Unknown Processional Banner by the Guardi Brothers', The Burlington Magazine, CX, no. 779, February 1968, p. 69, note 15.

A. Morassi, Guardi, Venice, 1973, I, pp. 150 and 340, no. 171; II, fig. 193.

L. Rossi Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi, Milan, 1974, pp. 121-2, no. 539, pl. XL.

A. Morassi, Guardi - I Disegni, Venice, 1975, pp. 104-5, under no. 144.

R. Pallucchini, La pittura nel Veneto: Il Settecento, Milan, 1996, II, pp. 48 and 55, fig. 48, as 'Stupenda la Sacra Famiglia con l'agnello della collezione Chrysler di New York, composizione di piccolo formato condotta con brio sciolto di pennellata e una nervosità di contorni seghettati e guizzanti'.



Exhibited

Venice, Procuratie nuove, Quattrocento pitture inedite prima mostra nazionale antiquaria, 1947.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Guardi Family, Selected from American Museums and Collections, 1958, no. 5.

Portland, Portland Art Museum; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, Legion of Honor; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; St. Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Gallery of Art; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 2 March 1956-14 April 1957, no. 51.

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Venetian Paintings of the 18th Century, 31 October-16 December 1961, no. 16.

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Mostra dei Guardi, 5 June-10 October 1965, no. 127.

Norfolk, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 2 December 1967-15 May 1968, no. 68.
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