Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto). Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Pen and brown ink sketch of two columns (verso)
Dimensions:6 x 10 1/4in. (15.2 x 26.1cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.165.78
Obach; Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
George A. Simonson Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793. London, 1904, cat. no. 191, fig. no. 191, p. 28, ill.
Sidney Colvin Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters: part 5 first series (1905-15). The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, 1910, cat. no. 13, ill.
Gino Damerini L'arte di Francesco Guardi. 1912, p. 182, ill.
Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "Drawings and Related Paintings by Francesco Guardi." Art Quarterly. vol. 2, 1939, fig. no. 3, pp. 268, 271, ill.
Max Goering Francesco Guardi. Vienna, 1944, fig. no. 90, pp. 48, 82, ill.
Terisio Pignatti I disegni veneziani del Settecento. Treviso, n. d. [1965], cat. no. 133, ill.
Pietro Zampetti Mostra dei Guardi. Exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Venice, 1965, cat. no. 40, p. 316, ill.
Terisio Pignatti I disegni Veneziani del Settecento. Rome, Italy, 1966, p. 133, ill.
Terisio Pignatti Disegni dei Guardi. Florence, 1967, cat. no. LXV, fig. no. pl. LXV, ill.
James Byam Shaw "The Biron Collection of Venetian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum Journal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 3, New York, 1971, pp. 251-251.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. vols. 1-2, Venice, 1973, cat. no. under no. 371, p. 380.
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1974, cat. no. under no. 197, p. 101.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 337, fig. no. 336, ill.
Inaugural Exhibition of the New Wichita Art Museum. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, 1978, cat. no. 53, fig. no. 53.
Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 88, fig. no. 88, pp. 103-04, ill.
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