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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This seems to be an imaginary landscape, known as a capriccio. Guardi produced popular views of Venice, and followed the common studio practice of borrowing compositions from others, including his near contemporary Giovanni Marieschi, but his main source of inspiration was certainly Canaletto. Later, like Canaletto, Guardi turned from views of Venice to such imaginative compositions. The motifs are mainly classical buildings or ruins, often in waterside settings. This small painting would seem to fit within this group of works. Secure attributions to Guardi are difficult as he was assisted in his studio by his younger brother Niccolò and his son Giacomo who collaborated on many of his works and his son continued to produce paintings in the studio after Francesco's death. Guardi's paintings were also regularly forged in the first part of the twentieth century. | Subjects: | landscape (river); buildings and gardens (ruins) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Guardi, Francesco (Italian painter, 1712-1793) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8825... | Go to resource |
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