About This Artwork

Francesco Guardi
Italian, 1712-1793

Capriccio: The Lagoon, after 1770

Oil on canvas
8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (21.3 x 17.2 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, 1964.242

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1963–64, (Chicago, 1964), p. 19.

Art Institute of Chicago Calendar, March 1965, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 11 (ill.).

Antonio Morassi, Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi, Venice, 1973, vol. 1, pp. 278–79, 480, cat. no. 921; vol. 2, fig. 816.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 160.

Ownership History

S. Tozzi [this and other information derives from Morassi 1973]; sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, June 1919. Private collection, California. Wildenstein, New York. Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, by 1964; given to Art Institute, 1964.