# Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon

- By: Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/29410)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/289a458c-a109-feef-1eca-b439607cd062/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.

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