An Elegant Couple, a Gooseboy, and a Gentleman [recto]

c. 1780

Francesco Guardi

Artist, Venetian, 1712 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 8 x 20 cm (3 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

  • 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

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