About This Artwork

Francesco Guardi
Italian, 1712-1793

Capriccio: Lake, Bridge and Ruins, after 1770

Oil on canvas
12 x 20 1/16 in. (30.5 x 51 cm)
Gift of Marshall Field in memory of his great-great-grandfather Marshall Field I, in whose collection it once was., 1970.1030

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1970-1971 (Chicago, 1971), pp. 3 (ill.), 10, 26.

Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi (Venice, 1973), vol. I, p. 470, no. 863, vol. II, fig. 780.

John D. Morse, Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 160.

Ownership History

Perhaps Frank T. Sabin, London [undated F. Sabin label on reverse]. Knoedler, London and New York, by 1931 [according to mount of photo in the Witt Library, London and Morassi 1973—this seems to contradict the notion that the painting was is the collection of Marshall Field I as was indicated by his descendant, the donor]. Marshall Field, Chicago, by 1967; gift to the Art Institute, 1970.