Francesco Guardi
Italian, 1712-1793
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
INV-2941
Francesco Guardi
Italian, 1712-17931775/80
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
Francesco Guardi Italian, 1712-1793 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1775/80
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
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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