id: 129182 accession number: 1951.83 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.83 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:22.246000 Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1780s. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793). Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash (possibly chalk) and traces of black chalk, framing lines in brown and black ink; sheet: 31.3 x 46.5 cm (12 5/16 x 18 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.83 title: Piazza San Marco, Venice title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1780s creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1789 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with brush and gray wash (possibly chalk) and traces of black chalk, framing lines in brown and black ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.3 x 46.5 cm (12 5/16 x 18 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: VERSO, center, in graphite: 588 2 [underlined, upside down] ; lower left, in red chalk: [5 ?]7 [sideways] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Views of Venice opening date: 1953-03-11T04:00:00 Views of Venice. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 26, 1953). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: Mostra dei Guardi opening date: 1965-06-05T04:00:00 Mostra dei Guardi. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (June 5-October 10, 1965). title: Venice as City and Theater opening date: 1985-02-27T05:00:00 Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Artists on Architecture. Akron Art Institute (now Akron Art Museum). Akron, OH. 1952.', 'opening_date': '1952-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Private collector, Budapest. date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Sale at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11, 1911, cat. no. 107.) date: 1911 footnotes: citations: (M. Knoedler & Co., London.) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Cesar M. De Hauke [1900-1965], Paris, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1951.) date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shaw, James Byam. “Notes on Old and Modern Drawings: Unpublished Guardi Drawings.” The Art Quarterly 17 (1954): 159-166. page number: Mentioned: p. 160 under no. 7; Reproduced: p. 163 fig. 5 url: “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January-March, 1955.” The Art Quarterly 18, no. 3 (Autumn 1955). page number: Mentioned: p. 307 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 577 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n108 Francis, Henry S. "Four Drawings by Francesco Guardi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 1 (1958): 8-13. page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: p. 10 url: Parker, K.T. and James Byam Shaw. Canaletto e Guardi: Catalogo della Mostra dei disegni. Venice: Neri Pozza, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 57 under no. 69 url: Zampetti, Pietro. Mostra dei Guardi; catalogo della Mostra. Venezia: Alfieri, 1965. page number: Mentioned: p. 412 url: Pignatti, Terisio. Disegni dei Guardi. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1967. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. LIV url: Morassi, Antonio. Guardi:Tutti i Disegni di Antonio, Francesco E. Giacomo Guardi. Milan: Alfieri, 1975. page number: Mentioned: p.135 under no. 320; Reproduced: fig. 319 url: Visentini, Margherita Azzi. “Feste.” Francesco Guardi: Vedute, Capricci, Feste. Venice: Electa, 1993. page number: Mentioned: p. 90 under no. 24 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 24, pp. 68-69, p. 286 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 25, no. 32 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.83/1951.83_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.83/1951.83_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.83/1951.83_full.tif