Live Auction 23048A Park Avenue Collection
FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
Lot 134

FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)

A vaulted courtyard with figures

Closed17 April 2024

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USD 15,000–25,000

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FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
Guardi, F.
A vaulted courtyard with figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on blue paper
8 ¾ x 8 ¼ in. (22.1 x 21 cm)

Georges Duplessis (1834-1899), Paris.
Jacques Guérin; Hotel Drouot, Paris, 20 December 1922, lot 43 (to M. Muron).
with Richard Owen, Paris.
Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand (1859-1937), Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2001, lot 68.

Specialist note

Antonio Morassi pointed out that this composition is a free interpretation of the architecture of the courtyard of Palazzo Zorzi, Venice, and cited two more precise depictions of it (Morassi, op. cit., 1984, nos. 558-559, ill.).