View of the Isola di San Michele in Venice
1774 - 1835
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
21.5; 14; 5.5
About this artwork
…; collection Barthold Suermondt (1818-1887), Aachen;{Coll. cat. Berlin 1898, p. 131, no. 501C.}…; collection Königliche Museen zu Berlin, 1898;{Coll. cat. Berlin 1898, p. 131, no. 501C.} from whom acquired, with three other paintings, by the dealer P. Cassirer, Berlin, in exchange for three paintings, 1918;{SMB-ZA, I/GG 50, Protokolle der Sitzungen der Sachverständigenkommission der Gemäldegalerie, 1901-1916, 1918, p. 102 v., J.-Nr. 760/18.}….; from the dealer N. Beets, Amsterdam, fl. 1,700, to...
About the Artist
Giacomo Guardi · 1764–1835
Giacomo Guardi (1764–1835) was a Venetian painter who worked in the long shadow of his celebrated father, Francesco Guardi, one of the greatest vedutisti — view painters — of the eighteenth century. Born into one of Venice's most prominent artistic families, Giacomo received his training directly from his father, absorbing both the technical methods and the characteristic style that had made Franc...