FJK 059
Guardi Francesco (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice)
Portrait of a Venetian Dignitary (recto)
Studies of Boats and Figures in a Landscape (verso)
Date unknown
9 27/32 × 7 7/8 in. (250 × 200 mm)
Medium
Pen, brown and grey ink, brown wash over traces of charcoal on paper (recto)
Charcoal (verso)
Origin
H. N. Bier Collection, London
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Squire Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, December 11, 1975, no. 42 (ill. of the back p. 60)
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 9, 2008, no. 132
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6821
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
MORASSI Antonio, Guardi, Tutti i Disegni, Venice, 1975, p. 112, no. 194 (ill. of the recto fig. 195).
Notes
Antonio Morassi (loc. cit.) associates the present study with other drawings by Francesco Guardi which he catalogues as Teste di Fantasia. He writes that this, like a few others in the group, is inspired by official portraiture of the sixteenth century. Our study can be closely related to a drawing of a Venetian dignitary, also an oval and similar in media and size, now in the Correr Museum, Venice (see Morassi, op. cit. no 192, reproduced fig. 194). The figures on the verso are totally characteristic of the artist.
Sotheby’s, Old Master Drawings, London July 2008
Request for information/loan
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