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Panorama of Venice from the Bacino di San Marco, Including the Project for the Proposed Teatro Manin
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Panorama of Venice from the Bacino di San Marco, Including the Project for the Proposed Teatro Manin

ca. 1788–93

Medium

Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and a little body color

Dimensions

18 11/16 x 34 13/16 in. (47.5 x 88.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Francesco Guardi

1712–1793Republic of Venice

Venetian painter, during the first half of his life focused on decorations and church paintings; later became a successful vedutista (view painter) of Venetian urban life.