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Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
1775/80
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
