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Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon

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Date: 1775/80
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Culture: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 29410

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Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.

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Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Provenance: Sold by Lucille Cohen, London, to the Marquis de Biron (Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron; died 1939), Paris, 1909 [according to Paris 1952]; by descent to his nephew, the Duc de Talleyrand, Paris, by 1958 [according to Morassi 1958]. Sold by Rosenberg and Steibel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.