About This Artwork

Francesco Guardi
Italian, 1712-1793

Capriccio, after 1770

Oil on canvas
20 3/16 x 12 in. (51.3 x 30.6 cm)
Gift of Marshall Field, 1977.11

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Antonio Morassi, Guardi: Antonio e Francesco Guardi (Venice, 1973), vol. I, p. 491, no. 980, vol. II, fig. 869.

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]. Marshall Field, Chicago, by 1967; gift to the Art Institute, 1977.