Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.320
People
Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venice, Italy 1712 - 1793 Venice, Italy)
Title
A Lady Holding a Fan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298704

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash and graphite (?) on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
20.5 × 9.9 cm (8 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in foreground: Francesco Guardi

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Charles Robinson, London (Lugt 1433). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles Alexander Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.320
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Francesco Guardi, exh. cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA, 1937), no. 30, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 319, fig. 158
  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 16
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella III")

Exhibition History

  • Francesco Guardi, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 02/20/1937 - 03/21/1937
  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu