About This Artwork
Capriccio: A Ruined Classical Templen.d.
Pen and brush and brown ink, and brush and gray wash, with traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper
292 x 207 mm
Mrs. Potter Palmer Memorial Fund, 1957.328R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 127, pl. 136, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C..
The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Publication History
W. G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768 I (Oxford, 1962), no. 812 (ill.).
Ownership History
Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis. Ferruccio Asta (died 1952), Venice, by 1939 [Lugt 116a; Constable 1962]. Sold by Alfred Strölin, Lausanne, to the Art Institute, 1957.