Figure Studies (recto); Figures Along a Canal and on a Bridge; to the right, a Curtain and a Stool (?) (verso)
1712–93
Medium
Black chalk, the architecture drawn in pen and brown ink over black chalk on beige paper (recto). Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
7 11/16 x 10 1/16in. (19.5 x 25.6cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.31
Tags
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...