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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.113
People
Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venice, Italy 1712 - 1793 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Fondamenta della Zattere, Venice
Other Titles
Former Title: View of Venice
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1770-1780
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230011

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47 x 75.6 cm (18 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.)
frame: 59.1 x 90.5 x 2 cm (23 1/4 x 35 5/8 x 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly private collection, England. [Koetser Gallery, New York and London, by April 1942] [1] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1942, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Notes
[1] W. G. Constable saw painting at Koetser in April 1942. Koetser told him came from collection in England.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.113
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 10
  • Paul Zucker, Styles in Painting: A Comparative Study, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1963), p. 212, fig. 170
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 96
  • H. Travers Newton, "A Technical Comparison of Three Paintings by Francesco Guardi: Isola de Madonnetta, Canale della Giudecca con le Zattere, and Capricio: Landscape in Ruins" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1979), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 183, p. 161, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 62, color plate; pp. 111, 363, repr. b/w cat. no. 791

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985

Verification Level

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