ID 1358468
Lot 53 | FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
The Piazzetta of San Marco, Venice, looking towards San Giorgio Maggiore
signed with initials 'F.G.' (centre left, on the column)
oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 34 1/8 in. (69 x 86 ½ cm.)
Provenance
John Wilson FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown (1809-1883), Upper Ossory, Ireland, and by inheritance to his wife,
Augusta, Dowager Lady Castletown (1810-1899), Upper Ossory, Ireland, and by descent to her son,
Sir Bernard Edward Barnaby FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown (1848-1937), Upper Ossory, Ireland; Christie's, London, 18 July 1924, lot 145 (800 gns. to Vicars).
with Galerie Charles Brunner, Paris, inv. no. 2628, c. 1925-30 (according to the Frick Digital Collections).
with Kennedy Galleries, New York, 18 March 1983, where acquired by the father of the present owner.
Literature
G.A. Simonson, Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793, London, 1904, p. 98.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, I, London, 1913, pp. 453 and 454.
G.A. Simonson, 'An Early Guardi', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XXV, August 1914, p. 267.
F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Venetian School, New York, 1973, p. 31, as whereabouts unknown.
A. Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi, I, Venice, 1973, p. 370, under no. 317.
F. Marias and C. Luca de Tena, Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Monasterio de Pedralbes, Madrid, 1993, pp. 106-108, no. A897.
R. Contini, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian painting, London, 2002, pp. 304-307, no. 64.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and Deceased English Masters, with which the Proprietors have favoured the Institution, June 1844, no. 84, lent by R.W. Fitzpatrick.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of works by the old masters, and by deceased masters of the British School, 1884, no. 179, as erroneously signed 'Franco Guardi', lent by the Dowager Lady Castletown.
Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Canaletto. Una Venecia imaginaria, 21 February-2 September 2001, no. 45.
| Artist: | Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1793) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1793) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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