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Peasants dancing (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1712-1793

(artist)
1764-1835

Title

Peasants dancing (recto)

Date of Production

(circa, recto) 1760

Medium

black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, with some white accretions at lower right and the lower right corner replaced (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.6 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.134

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

C.A. Earnshaw, London; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 August 1949; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 August 1949 (£80); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983

Literature

Byam Shaw, J., 'Unpublished Guardi drawings' in 'Art Quarterly', 1953; XVI
no. 4
pl. 68

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 134
pl. XCIV (recto), fig. 38 (verso)

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 134 ...More

Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
p. 121 under cat. 245
fig. 252

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 25 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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