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Landscape capriccio

Maker

(artist)
1712-1793

Title

Landscape capriccio

Date of Production

(circa) 1780 - 1785

Medium

traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey (with black particles) wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 7.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.137.1

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

Sir Algernon Peyton (1889-1962); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 July 1951, lot 2; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 December 1951 (£90, with D.1978.PG.137.2); 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

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

Byam Shaw, James, 'Some Guardi Drawings Rediscovered' in Master Drawings, 15, 1, Spring 1977, pp. 3-15 and 59-73
p. 11 under no. 7
as related to a drawing by Francesco Guardi in Canterbury, Royal Museum, Capriccio with a Ruined Classical Colonnade and a Pyramid

Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
cat. 500 on p. 166
fig. 501 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 137

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 137
pl. XCVII
dated c. 1780-85

Byam Shaw, J., 'Unpublished Guardi drawings' in 'Art Quarterly', 1953; XVI
no. 15
ill. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "Guardi-"; right centre, graphite, Colnaghi inventory number: "18418/2-".

Collector's mark: none.

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