Fanciful View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
c. 1785
Artist, Venetian, 1712 - 1793

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.8 x 76.3 cm (18 7/16 x 30 1/16 in.)
framed: 63.7 x 91.8 x 7 cm (25 1/16 x 36 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1956.9.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Alphonse Kann [1870-1948], Paris); sold 4 June 1914 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, stock no. 4543); sold 27 June 1914 to Calouste Gulbenkian; returned 11 June 1915 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, stock no. 4668); sold 7 July 1922 to (C.M. Agnew and Ansdell, London);[1] sold to Howard Sturges [d. 1955], Providence, Rhode Island;[2] gift 1956 to NGA.
[1] Information provided by Martha Hepworth of the Getty Provenance Index from the stock records of Agnew's; the relationship of Agnew and Ansdell to the firm of Agnew's is unclear; they purchased paintings from Agnew's in the early 1920s (letter of 25 February 1992, NGA curatorial files).
[2] Notation of a letter from Geoffrey Agnew of 10 August 1956, on an artist card in NGA curatorial files, records that Sturges bought the painting from Agnew's, but gives no indication of when.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences (now Chrysler Museum), Virginia, 1967-1972.
1974
Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1974.
1977
Extended loan for use by Secretary Patricia R. Harris, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1977-1980.
Bibliography
1958
Muraro, Michelangelo. "An Altar-Piece and Other Figure Paintings by Francesco Guardi." The Burlington Magazine 100 (1958): 8, fig. 17.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 64.
1967
Muraro, Michelangelo. "Asterischi guardeschi." In Problemi Guardesci. Atti del Convegno di studi promossi della mostra dei Guardi. 13-14 settembre 1965. Venice, 1967: 161, fig. 175.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 56, repro.
1972
Krönig, Wolfgang. "Storia di una veduta di Roma." Stordia dell'Arte 57 (1972): 182, fig. 37.
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 97.
1973
Morassi, Antonio. Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi. 2 vols. Venice, 1973-1975: 1:137, 257-258, 438, no. 685; 2:644.
1974
Rossi Bortolatto, Luigina. L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974: 84, 131, no. 708, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 166, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:243; 2:pl. 164.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 194, repro.
1993
Succi, Dario. Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1993: 115, fig. 115.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 138-141, repro. 139.
Wikidata ID
Q20179306