Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764-1825)
Lot 58

Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764-1825)

Two views of San Giorgio in Alga

Closed24 January 2008

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USD 17,500

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Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764-1825)
Two views of San Giorgio in Alga
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4½ x 7 3/8 in. (105 x 188 mm.)(a pair) (2)

Specialist note

San Giorgio in Alga is an island between the Giudecca and Fusina. A Benedictine monastery was founded there in 1000 AD but was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century it became the location for a prison.