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A Capriccio with a Ruined Gothic Arch
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
1770/89
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 17.5 × 24.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed