Capriccio: The Lagoon

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

After 1770

Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Francesco Guardi
Title: Capriccio: The Lagoon
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1771–1793
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 21.3 × 17.2 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein
Reference Number: 1964.242
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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.

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.

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