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Francesco Guardi

Venice, view of the lagoon with the fondamenta nuove opposite the casino degli Spiriti

Canvas: 32 x 52.6 cm

Provenance:
Art market, 1920 – 1925
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 18^th November 1959, lot 125
Edward Speelman, London
Private collection, London
Private collection, Paris.

Literature: A. Morassi, The Lagoonscapes of Francesco Guardi, in Apollo, vol. XC, no. 89,

July 1969, P. 38, reproduction p. 39, fig. 3.

A. Morassi, Guardi, Venice, 1973, vol. 1, p. 425, cat. No. 617, and p. 429,

under cat. No. 640., reproduced vol. II, fig. 585.

An early work belonging to a small series of views of the Venetian lagoon, all of similar dimension,
spread between the Fitzwilliam museum(Cambridge), the Henle collection, the Duke of Buccleuch
(Bowhill) and the Bentick – Thyssen collection.

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