Two Elegant Couples [verso], c. 1780

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 8 x 20 cm (3 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1986.13.1.b

Artists / Makers

Francesco Guardi (artist) Venetian, 1712 - 1793

Image Use

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Provenance

(Richard Ederheimer, New York); S. de Ricci, New York; Stephen B. Clark, New York; Janos Scholz [1903-1993], New York; Walter Hugelshofer, Zurch; private collection, America; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, no. 143); acquired by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Hugelshofer, W. Dr.
Scholz, Janos
Sotheby's
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 108.

Bibliography

1975: Morassi, Antonio. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975: 118, nos. 224 and 225, figs. 227, 228.