{ "data": { "id": 132646, "accession_number": "1955.164.b", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Three Sketches of Arches (verso), 1782. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712\u20131793). Pen and brown ink; 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.b", "current_location": null, "title": "Three Sketches of Arches (verso)", "creation_date": "1782", "creation_date_earliest": 1782, "creation_date_latest": 1782, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Italy, Venice" ], "technique": "pen and brown ink", "support_materials": [ { "description": "cream(3) laid paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - Italian", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 25.9 x 36.8 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.259, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 0.368, "width_inch": 14, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "verso, center right, in graphite: Francesco Guardi / 208 [circled]; lower right, in graphite: 208", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [ { "description": "Birmingham, 1951, 19-20, no. 42; cma 1958-59; cma 1959-60a; cma 1965b; cma 1968b; cma 1981-82a; cma 1985b.", "opening_date": "1951-01-01T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Henry Oppenheimer, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1936", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Sold at Henry Oppenheimer's sale at Christie's, London, no. 93", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "10 July 1936", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Brinsley Ford, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1954", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "Sold at Brinsley Ford's sale at Sotheby's, London, no. 39", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "10 November 1954", "sortorder": 4 }, { "description": "with Richard H. Zinser, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 5 }, { "description": "Purchased by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1955", "sortorder": 6 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Before entering the museum's collection, this sheet may have been cut on the left, possibly to eliminate a sixth carriage that does not appear in Guardi\u2019s other representations of the procession.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This drawing records a grand procession through Venice's Piazza San Marco on the penultimate day of the 1782 celebrations for the visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul (Pavel) Petrovitch and his wife Maria Feodorovna. Francesco Guardi was likely commissioned by the Venetian state to document the ducal visit. Drawing from the vantage point of the Procuratie Nuove (a palace on one side of the piazza), Guardi sketched five carriages festooned with allegories, which were meant to celebrate the governments of Catherine the Great and Venice. In order to include as much of the procession as possible, he manipulated the perspective of the buildings on the right side of the square.The loose handling and lively immediacy of the pen work suggests he executed it on the spot. One drawing (Museen Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin) and two oil paintings (private collections, Venice and Milan) of the same scene survive. Cleveland\u2019s sheet likely preceded these more detailed and polished compositions.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80024739" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1955.164.b-three-sketches-of-ar" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "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, cat. no. 25", "url": "" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.164.b", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164.b/1955.164.b_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "887", "filesize": "738520", "filename": "1955.164.b_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164.b/1955.164.b_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2388", "filesize": "6031600", "filename": "1955.164.b_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.164.b/1955.164.b_full.tif", "width": "6360", "height": "4468", "filesize": "85274888", "filename": "1955.164.b_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "John L. 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