An Elegant Couple, a Gooseboy, and a Gentleman [recto]
c. 1780
Artist, Venetian, 1712 - 1793

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 8 x 20 cm (3 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1986.13.1.a
Associated Artworks

Two Elegant Couples [verso]
Francesco Guardi
1780
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard Ederheimer, New York); S. de Ricci, New York; Stephen B. Clark, New York; Janos Scholz [1903-1993], New York; Walter Hugelshofer, Zurch; private collection, America; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, no. 143); acquired by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 107.
Bibliography
1975
Morassi, Antonio. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975: 118, nos. 224 and 225, figs. 227, 228.
1985
Sotheby's, New York: 1/16/86, 143.
Wikidata ID
Q64562385