id: 129805 accession number: 1952.235.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.235.4 updated: 2025-04-30 11:28:28.217000 Abraham Welcoming the Three Angels, 1750s. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793). Oil on canvas; framed: 70.5 x 90.5 x 5.5 cm (27 3/4 x 35 5/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 56.5 x 75.5 cm (22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1952.235.4 title: Abraham Welcoming the Three Angels title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1750s creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1759 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 70.5 x 90.5 x 5.5 cm (27 3/4 x 35 5/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 56.5 x 75.5 cm (22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art opening date: 2010-09-09T00:00:00 The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (organizer) (September 9, 2010-January 2, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 5 - October 10, 1965: "Mostra dei Guardi," cat. no. 59, p. 412 (as Francesco)', 'opening_date': '1965-06-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Approved: Trustees' Minutes 6/21/1965", 'opening_date': '1965-06-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Oklahoma City Museum of Art (9/9/2010 - 1/2/2011): "The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art", cat. no. 7, p. 54.', 'opening_date': '2010-09-09T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Alessandro Brass, letter to Henry S. Francis, March 29, 1952, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Alessandro Brass, invoice, July 5, 1952, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Morassi, Antonio. Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. Venezia: Alfieri, 1973. page number: url: Alessandro Brass, letter to Henry S. Francis, Aug. 15, 1952, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Antonio Morassi, letter to Neumann, Nov. 24, 1937, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Nancy Coe Wixom, letter to Alessandro Bettagno, Oct. 22, 1969, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Morassi, Antonio, “A Signed Drawing by Antonio Guardi and the Problem of the Guardi Brothers,” Burlington Magazine 95 (August 1953): 267. page number: url: Morassi, Antonio. Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. Venezia: Alfieri, 1973. page number: url: Morassi, Antonio. Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. Venezia: Alfieri, 1973. page number: url: Alessandro Brass, letter to Henry S. Francis, Aug. 15, 1952, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Nancy Coe Wixom, letter to Alessandro Bettagno, Oct. 22, 1969, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Binion, Alice. Antonio and Francesco Guardi, Their Life and Milieu: With a Catalogue of Their Figure Drawings. New York: Garland Pub, 1976. page number: url: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. L'arte di Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Bologna: Giuseppe Maylender, editore, 1934. page number: url: Levey, Michael. The Eighteenth-Century Italian Schools. London: Publications Dept., National Gallery, 1956. page number: url: Coe, Nancy. "Four Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Guardi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 9 (November 1957): 198-203. page number: Mentioned: p. 198; Reproduced: p. 200 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142240 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. 429 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n79 Heinemann, Fritz. "Mostra Dei Guardi : Ausstellung in Venedig, Juni Bis September 1965." Kunstchronik / Hrsg. Vom Zentralinstitut Für Kunstgeschichte 18 (1965): 223-246. page number: Reproduced: P. 238 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n170 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n170 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Reproduced: cat. 159D, p. 360 - 363 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 143 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n163 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.235.4/1952.235.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.235.4/1952.235.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.235.4/1952.235.4_full.tif