Santa Maria della Salute
c. 1770
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 32.39 × 52.71 cm (12 3/4 × 20 3/4 in.) framed: 48.9 × 68.9 × 6.99 cm (19 1/4 × 27 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2015.19.29
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...