Art Institute of Chicago
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
Francesco Guardi
- 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
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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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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