Detail View: The AMICA Library: Capriccio with Ruined Gate, Lagoon and Barques

AMICA ID: 
AIC_.1968.309
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Guardi, Francesco
Creator Nationality: 
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
Italian; 1712-1793
Creator Name-CRT: 
Francesco Guardi
Title: 
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
Title Type: 
preferred
Title: 
Capriccio with Ruined Gate, Lagoon and Barques
Title Type: 
alternate
View: 
full view
Creation Date: 
=1775-1780 wkg J79b
Creation Start Date: 
1775
Creation End Date: 
1780
Materials and Techniques: 
Medium: Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.W.mark: YRemarks: Watermark, not initial 'H' with knots (as pub'd- that 68.310) should betaradiograph
Classification Term: 
pen and ink
Classification Term: 
Drawing
Classification Term: 
Prints and Drawings
Creation Place: 
Europe,Italy
Dimensions: 
Height: 271 mm., Width: 385 mm.
AMICA Contributor: 
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 
1968.309
Credit Line: 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Rights: 
Context: 
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative "capriccios," or fantasies such as these.
Related Image Identifier Link: 
AIC_.D14251.tif