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River scene with a bridge

Maker

(artist)
1712-1793

Title

Date of Production

(circa, or later) 1780

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 36.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.388

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

Wouters Collection sale? (note by Seilern in file but he misspelled the name and attempted to correct it, rendering it unclear; the drawing does not appear in the 1801 sale catalogue of Pierre Wouters); anonymous sale, Frederik Muller & Cie (Amsterdam), 5-6 July 1927, Part II, lot 218; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 7 July 1959, lot 15 (according to Seilern) or lot 24 (according to Colnaghi); purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 8 July 1959 (£840); 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

Frederik Muller et Cie., Amsterdam, Dessins anciens italiens, français, allemands, hollandais et anglais, 1927 (5-6 Jul.)
no. 218
ill.

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 388
pl. LXXV
dated c. 1780 or later

Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
under cat. 609 p. 183
Fig. 590 ...More

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 32 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, hand of Giacomo Guardi (according to Byam Shaw): “Guardi F.”. Verso: left centre, graphite, difficult to read: “en [sic] Dessin No: L48 / h les sau[…] soutenu / 22 – 36 ½ / 8 8 / [sum line] / 30-44 ½”; below that, in graphite: “Guardi”.

Collector's mark: none.

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