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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.322
People
Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venice, Italy 1712 - 1793 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Bucentaur Approaching the Lido
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298581

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
12 × 23.8 cm (4 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.322
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 317, p. 161; vol. 2, repr. fig. 156
  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 14
  • Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 464-469, p. 469, fig. 8
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 71, n.p., and p. 69, repr. (color)
  • Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée and Frédérique Lemerle, Catalogue des dessins italiens: collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Réunion des musées nationaux / Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Paris and Lille, 1997), under cat. no. 286, p. 111
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 21, 2021), under lot 49

Exhibition History

  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948

Verification Level

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