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Feast of Ascension Day
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1712-1793
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Width: 39.1 cm
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The Marriage to the Sea was – and still is today – the most extraordinary spectacle in Venice. Established around the year 1000, it symbolised the city’s maritime identity. On Ascension Day, the Doge, head of the Republic, boarded the Bucintoro, his ceremonial barge, to reach the mouth of the harbour, where he tossed a blessed ring into the sea. Guardi portrayed this colourful ceremony more than any other Venetian artist. Here, the Bucintoro stands in Saint Mark’s basin surrounded by a multitude of richly trimmed gondolas.
The quick, nervous penwork is characteristic of Guardi’s late style, with the contours dissolving in light and colour. Faint black chalk lines at the right of the composition delineate the domed profile of the church of Santa Maria della Salute. However, the artist then decided not to include the building in the final composition.
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Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992 ...More
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/07/1981-26/01/1982 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 40
pp. 88, 182
ill. on p. 89
dated c. 1790
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 68
ill. on p. 81
Romanelli, Giandomenico, Alessandro Bettagno et al., Masterpieces of eighteenth-century Venetian drawing, London 1983
p. 161
essay 'The Drawings of Francesco Guardi' by Terisio Pignatti; dated c. 1790 ...More
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection A), Courtauld Gallery, London, 1981-1982
cat. no. 136
Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
no. 280
fig. 283
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 138
Pignatti, Terisio, I disegni Veneziani del settecento, 1966
no. 136
ill.
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 138
pl. XCVIII
dated c. 1780-85
Lugt, Frits, Les marques de collections. Supplément, The Hague 1956
p. 274 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: upper centre, graphite, Paulme's hand?: "F Gaurdi / Fête du Bucentaure".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Paul Émile Marius Paulme (L.1910).
Label: Likely all detached from former frame, now kept in object file: typewritten: Francesco GUARDI / (Venise, 1712-1793) / La Fête du Bucentaure, à Venise. / Collection E. Warneck. Vente après / décès de Madame Warneck à Paris, / les 10-11 Mai 1905, No 177.”; pen and ink on two separate labels: “1028 / F. Guardi” and “1028 / Francesco Guardi”; graphite: “Ref D 11440 / R9533/1”; graphite, Knoedler's inv. no. (see letter in file): “CA2969”.
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