Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
The Bucintoro off S. Niccolo di Lido. Verso: Study for a street scene with figures
14 3/4 x 32 1/16 inches
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk; verso: pen and brown ink on two joined sheets of paper.
1947.2
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Notes
Watermark: Triple crescents, on right side of sheet. Watermark, beta radiograph. three crescents, moon. 108784wm1_1947_2_rt_WM_beta.jpg
Watermark: Triple crescents over MEZANA on left side of sheet. Watermark, beta radiograph. three crescents, moon, Mezana. 108784wm2_1947_2_lft_WM_beta.jpg
Study for the painting in the Alessandro Brass Collection, Venice.
In this drawing the richly decorated state barge (bucintoro) progresses from the Riva degli Schiavoni to San Niccolò al Lido, accompanied by a fotilla of gondolas and other vessels. The doge made the journey each year on Ascension Day, pausing to cast a ring into the lagoon to symbolize Venice's marriage to the Adriatic. A late work, the drawing is a compositional study for a painting of the early 1780s. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Watermark: Triple crescents over MEZANA on left side of sheet. Watermark, beta radiograph. three crescents, moon, Mezana. 108784wm2_1947_2_lft_WM_beta.jpg
Study for the painting in the Alessandro Brass Collection, Venice.
In this drawing the richly decorated state barge (bucintoro) progresses from the Riva degli Schiavoni to San Niccolò al Lido, accompanied by a fotilla of gondolas and other vessels. The doge made the journey each year on Ascension Day, pausing to cast a ring into the lagoon to symbolize Venice's marriage to the Adriatic. A late work, the drawing is a compositional study for a painting of the early 1780s. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscriptions/Markings
On verso as part of print, "Sacrum Convivium"; at lower left, "Cav. Orsolini fec. Ven".
Associated names
Dubois, former owner.
David-Weill, David, 1871-1952, former owner.
Zinser, Richard H., former owner.
David-Weill, David, 1871-1952, former owner.
Zinser, Richard H., former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 195, repr.
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