Lagoon Capriccio with an Obelisk
Francesco Guardi
ca. 1750–70
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
9 3/8 x 14 7/16in. (23.8 x 36.6cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number
07.282.9
Tags
Human FiguresObelisksLandscapesTrees
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...