id: 132644 accession number: 1955.164 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.164 updated: 2025-05-07 16:03:33.277000 A Procession of Triumphal Cars in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Celebrating the Visit of the Conti del Nord (recto); Three Sketches of Arches (verso), 1782. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793). Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash; sheet: 25.9 x 36.8 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1955.164 title: A Procession of Triumphal Cars in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Celebrating the Visit of the Conti del Nord (recto); Three Sketches of Arches (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1782 creation date earliest: 1782 creation date latest: 1782 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 25.9 x 36.8 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Aspects of Drawing opening date: 1961-01-10T05:00:00 Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). 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: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages opening date: 1981-08-25T04:00:00 Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Eighteenth Century Venice. Whitechapel Art Gallery (January 3 - March 14 1951); Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (March 21 - April 18 1951).', 'opening_date': '1951-03-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Henry Oppenheimer, London; [his sale, Christie's, London, 10 July 1936, no. 93] date: footnotes: citations: Brinsley Ford, London; [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1954, no. 39] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry. "Four Drawings by Francesco Guardi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 1 (January 1958): 8-13. page number: Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 11 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142256 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. 148 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n172 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. 148 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n172 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. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n166 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: P. 8, 70-71, 286; Reproduced: P. 71, cat. no. 25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164/1955.164_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164/1955.164_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164/1955.164_full.tif