COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
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
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
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