Items Similar to Francesco Guardi Follower Period Venetian School Ink Picture Capriccio
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8
Francesco Guardi Follower Period Venetian School Ink Picture Capriccio1780 ca.
1780 ca.
$1,921.44
£1,423.11
€1,600
CA$2,628.43
A$2,860.54
CHF 1,516.37
MX$34,414.45
NOK 19,232.42
SEK 17,596.31
DKK 12,192.28
About the Item
Our company has been present on this platform for many years, with numerous sales made and just as many excellent reviews received that you can under our Furniture account.
Period Venetian School Ink Picture Capriccio
Important ink drawing representing animated landscape with ruins and aqueduct in the background.
This important artwork, although it is not signed as is almost always the case with this artist's paintings, is attributed to the circle of the great Venetian painter Francesco Guardi
Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts.
Dimensions with frame cm 38 x 31
This painting, never before on the market, comes from an important French private collection and is beautified by an original frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition and protected by glass.
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (Venice 5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School.
He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
In the early part of his career he collaborated with his older brother Gian Antonio in the production of religious paintings. After Gian Antonio's death in 1760, Francesco concentrated on vedute.
The earliest of these show the influence of Canaletto, but he gradually adopted a looser style characterized by spirited brush-strokes and freely imagined architecture.
Francesco Guardi was born in Venice into a family of nobility from Trentino. His father Domenico (born in 1678) and his brothers Niccolò and Gian Antonio were also painters, later inheriting the family workshop after the father's death in 1716.
They probably all contributed as a team to some of the larger commissions later attributed to Francesco. His sister Maria Cecilia married the pre-eminent Veneto-European painter of his epoch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
In 1735, Guardi moved to the workshop of Michele Marieschi, where he remained until 1743.
His first certain works are from 1738, for a parish at Vigo d'Anuania, in Trentino. In this period he worked alongside his older brother, Gian Antonio.
Guardi's painterly style is known as pittura di tocco (of touch) for its small dotting and spirited brush-strokes.
This looser style of painting had been used by Giovanni Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci, and recalls, in some religious themes, the sweetened sfumato of Barocci's Bolognese style.
In this he differs from the more linear and architecturally accurate style of Canaletto's painting.
This style, a century later, would make Guardi's works highly prized by the French Impressionists.
Canaletto, as a vedutista, concentrated on glamorous urban architecture erected by the Serene Republic; on the other hand, in Guardi, the buildings often appear to be melting and sinking into a murky lagoon.
Canaletto's canvases often have intricate linear and brilliant details, and depict Venice in sunny daylight. Guardi paints clouded skies above a city at dusk.
These contrasts, however, simplify the facts, since Canaletto often painted the drab communal life and neighborhoods (creating in them some epic artistic qualities), while Guardi did not avoid sometimes painting the ceremonies of Ducal Venice.
Ultimately, Guardi's paintings evoke the onset of the dissipation.
The citizenry has shrunken to an impotent lilliputian crowd of "rubber-neckers", unable to rescue the crumbling Republic, as for example in the Fire in the Oil Depot in San Marcuola.
It was fitting depiction of the rapidly declining empire, which had declined, in Napoleon's assessment, into a "drawing room of Europe" peopled with casinos, carnivals, and courtesans for hire.
Under existing legislation, any artwork created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died can requires a license for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the license according to the destination of the artwork.
- Creation Year:1780 ca.
- Dimensions:Height: 6.11 in (15.5 cm)Width: 8.39 in (21.3 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2 mm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Circle Of:Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1792, Italian)
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2883217196092
About the Seller
No Reviews Yet
Vetted Professional Seller
Every seller passes strict standards for authenticity and reliability
Established in 1990
1stDibs seller since 2025
7 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 2 hours
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Roma, Italy
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View AllPeriod Italian Signed Grand Tour Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
Period Italian Signed Grand Tour Watercolor
Beautiful watercolour depicting the ancient Roman colony Timgad
Signed, dated and located in the l...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Gian Domenico Tiepolo Follower Period Italian Painting
By Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Located in Roma, IT
Gian Domenico Tiepolo Follower Period Italian Painting
A beautiful and important painting fan-shaped on parchment produced by an 18th century Venetian artist from the circle of Gian ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Landscape Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Parchment Paper
Late XIX Century Italian Signed Landscape Painting
Located in Roma, IT
Late XIX Century Italian Signed Landscape Painting
A beautiful mountain painting by the great Italian artist Celestino Ghione, who specialised in this genre.
Dating back to the seco...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1930s Italian Signed and Archived Roman Landscape
By Giovanni Omiccioli
Located in Roma, IT
An important and rare painting by the great Italian avant-garde artist Giovanni Omiccioli.
It depicts the so-called Spina di Borgo, the district in front of St. Peter's Basilica dest...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Francesco Paolo Michetti Period Italian Landscape Signed Drawing
By Francesco Paolo Michetti
Located in Roma, IT
Francesco Paolo Michetti Period Italian Landscape Signed Drawing
Beautiful and evocative work assigned to Francesco Paolo Michetti, one of the greatest Italian artists at the turn of...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ippolito Caffi 19th Century Signed Italian Painting
By Ippolito Caffi
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and important painting attributed to the great 19th-century artist Ippolito Caffi.
Tempera on canvas pasted on panel.
Depicts the Bay of Naples in all its resplendent beaut...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
You May Also Like
Large Drawing in the Style of Guardi, Italian School
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Rococo Drawings
Materials
Ink
$1,560 Sale Price
35% Off
19th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Painting, Style of Guardi
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Bradenton, FL
A beautiful 19th century Italian oil painting on re-lined canvas presented in a gilded wooden frame. Done in Guardi style with gold frame. The...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Paint
Giacomo Guardi (Venetian vedutist) - late 18th century painting - Venice View
Located in Varmo, IT
Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764 - Venice 1835) - Venice, view of the island of San Francesco del Deserto.
11 x 17 cm unframed, 28 x 34 cm with frame.
Tempera on paper, in a wooden fram...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Capriccio con arco (verso: study of a man)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 18th century, circle of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Capriccio con arco (verso: study of a man)
Brown ink on paper,
39 x 24.5 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private collec...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
Giacomo Guardi (Venetian vedutist) - late 18th century painting - Venice View
Located in Varmo, IT
Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764 - Venice 1835) - Venice, view of the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni.
11 x 17 cm unframed, 28 x 34 cm with frame.
Tempera on paper, in a wooden frame...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
18th Century Giacomo Guardi Old Master Painting of Venetian Lagoon, Provenance
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th century Giacomo Guardi old master painting of Venetian Lagoon. Provenance.
Old master painting in oil on canvas by the artist Giacomo Guardi (1764...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
