Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon

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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