1943.113: The Fondamenta della Zattere, Venice

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

Permissions

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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Landscape in Ruins" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1979), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim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

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