FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

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ID 863077
Lot 6 | FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
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£ 300 000 – 500 000
FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

The Piazza San Marco, Venice, looking west; and The Piazza San Marco, Venice, looking east

oil on canvas

12 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (31.2 x 52.7 cm.)

(2)the stretchers with 19th century stencil marks 'BQ' (Buccleuch and Queensberry) and numbered '33' and'28' respectively

a pair





Provenance

(Probably) Acquired in Venice by John, Lord Brudenell, later Marquess of Monthermer (1735-70) and by inheritance through his sister,

Caroline, Countess of Dalkeith (1718-1794) to her son,

Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and 4th Duke of Queensberry (1746-1812), and by inheritance to the following,

Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1832-1905), second son of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, and by descent at Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire.

with Colnaghi, New York, by May 1983.

with Harari and Johns, London, by September 1987.

Anonymous sale [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 12 January 1996, lot 36, when acquired.



Literature

D. Succi, Francesco Guardi. Itinerario dell'avventura artistica, Milan, 1993, pp. 31-32, figs. 22-23.

A. Corboz, 'Profilo per un'iconografia veneziana', Luca Carlevarijs e la veduta veneziana del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, 1994, p. 31, fig. 10 (the second only).



Exhibited

Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, A Venetian Perspective, 16 May-27 June 1987.



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