A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch
Francesco Guardi
1770/89
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
17.5 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149039
About the Artist
Francesco Guardi · 1712–1793
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712–1793) was born into a noble family of painters from Trentino who had settled in Venice. His father, Domenico Guardi, a minor painter trained in Vienna, died in 1716, leaving young Francesco to inherit the family workshop alongside his brothers Giovanni Antonio (Gian Antonio) and Niccolò, both artists, and sister Maria Cecilia, who married the renowned Giovanni Battis...