id:			125817
accession number:	1947.71
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.71
updated:		2025-04-30 11:28:28.061000

Head of a Woman, c. 1739. Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699–1760). Oil on canvas; framed: 62.5 x 53.5 x 6 cm (24 5/8 x 21 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 45.5 x 37.6 cm (17 15/16 x 14 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1947.71

title:				Head of a Woman
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creation date:			c. 1739
creation date earliest:		1734
creation date latest:		1744
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699–1760)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 62.5 x 53.5 x 6 cm (24 5/8 x 21 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 45.5 x 37.6 cm (17 15/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Bologna, 1922: "Mostra fiorentina della pittura Italiana del 600-700," cat. no. 40 bis (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).', 'opening_date': '1922-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Venice, Palazzo delle Bienale of the Public Gardens, 1929: "mostra del Settecento," cat. no. 17.', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'London, Saville Gallery ltd., 1930: "Exhibition of Paintings by Canaletto and Guardi," cat. no. 7, illus.', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'London, Tómas Harris Gallery, 1932: "Venetian Artists, XVI and the XVIII Centuries," cat. no. 6.', 'opening_date': '1932-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'London, Matthiesen Gallery, 1939: "Venetian Paintings and Drawings," cat. no. 73.', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Augsburg, 1975: "Johann Liss," cat E84', 'opening_date': '1975-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Toschi (Ravenna, Italy, and Forli, Italy).
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	A. M. Mucchi, (Sals [near Bologna], Italy), 1929.
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	Saville Gallery, Ltd. (London, England).
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	J. S. Oliver (Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England) (sold, Sotheby's, London, February 13, 1946, lot 20).
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	David M. Koetser Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 359; Mentioned: p. 358-360
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	Francis, Henry. "Francesco Guardi's 'Head of a Woman.'" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 9 (November 1947): 237-239.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 238; Reproduced: p. 243
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141412

	Coe, Nancy. "Four Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Guardi." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 9 (November 1957): 198-203.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 203
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142240

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