1932.323: San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; verso: Flagstaff with a Pennant

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.323

People

Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venice, Italy 1712 - 1793 Venice, Italy)

Title

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; verso: Flagstaff with a Pennant

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1765-1775

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298582

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash and black chalk

Dimensions

14.4 x 31.2 cm (5 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Three crescent moons (similar to Heawood 867; Mongan-Sachs W. 27)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.323

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Francesco Guardi, exh. cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA, 1937), nos. 38-39, repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 318, pp. 161-62; vol. 2, repr. fig. 157 (recto)
• Venice in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), no. 17
• James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Francesco Guardi, Faber & Faber (London) (London, England, 1951), p. 35
• Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1960), no. 29
• Antonio Morassi, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Alfieri (Venice, Italy, 1975), no. 351, fig. 352
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 71, n.p., pl. 71, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 39, pp. 90-91, and pp. 10-11, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 72, n.p., and p. 69, repr. in color
• 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
• Exhibition of Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 01/01/1951 - 12/31/1951
• The Guardi Family, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 01/13/1958 - 02/16/1958
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/09/2015 - 11/19/2015

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