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Saint Mark
Maker
1712-1793
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Width: 25.8 cm
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Guardi portrayed Mark, patron saint of Venice, in the midst of writing his Gospel, his eyes upturned in search of divine inspiration. The painterly application of the brown wash on the saint’s eyes conveys a feeling of ecstatic rapture. The cursive lines and fluttering contours are typical of Guardi’s late works.
The drawing may have been conceived as part of a set of the Four Evangelists accompanied by their respective symbols, as the lion, sketchily drawn at the lower right, seems to suggest.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983
Literature
no. 3
pl. 67
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 135
pl. XCV
dated c. 1765-70
Pignatti, Terisio, I disegni Veneziani del settecento, 1966
p. 218, no. 127
ill. ...More
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 135
revised date to c. 1775
Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
p. 106 under cat. 152
fig. 154 on p. 107
Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
p. 106 under cat. 152
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
Byam Shaw, James, 'On the origin of a drawing by Francesco Guardi' in 'Notizie da Palazzo Albani', 1983 - pp. 274-76; XII, 1-2
pp. 274-76
fig. 1 on p. 275 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, Colnaghi inventory number: "A / 17442 / AX/-/-".
Collector's mark: none.
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