About this artwork
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Francesco Guardi
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Title
- Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1775–1780
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- 27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
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Reference Number
- 1968.309
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/29410/manifest.json