Live Auction 17201British & European Art: European Art
Guglielmo Ciardi (Italian, 1842-1917)
Lot 231 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN FAMILY COLLECTION

Guglielmo Ciardi (Italian, 1842-1917)

A traghetto crossing the Sile, the Dolomites beyond

Closed11 July 2019

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GBP 70,000–100,000

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Guglielmo Ciardi (Italian, 1842-1917)
A traghetto crossing the Sile, the Dolomites beyond
signed 'G. CIARDI' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 ¾ x 52 1/8 in. (75.6 x 132.5 cm.)

with Piero Biasutti, Venice.
with Galleria Cordusio, Milan, no. 166.
Private collection, Italy.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The Sile, in the Treviso country side, was one of the motives Ciardi returned most often to, painting the scene at different times of day and in different weather conditions. The present work related closely to a similar composition dating from circa 1875 in the artist’s catalogue raisonné by Nico Stringa (no. 385) (Fig. 1).