no.300 (where dated c.1762). The drawing, which measures 414 x 755 mm., was reproduced as an etching by Dionigi Valesi some twenty years later (Morassi, op.cit., fig.383). 6.
Inv. 2212.1 and 2212.2; Ellis Waterhouse, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Paintings, 1967, pp.304-308, nos.154 and 155; Antonio Morassi, Guardi: I dipinti, Venice, 1973-1975 [reprinted 1985], Vol.I, p.384, no.390 and p.389, no.419, Vol.II, figs.414, 441-442; Dario Succi, Francesco Guardi: Itinerario dell’avventura artistica, Cinisello Balsamo, 1993, p.54, figs.45-46. The dimensions of the paintings are 284.5 x 423.8 cm. each.
7.
‘Questi capolavori assoluti, eseguiti verso il 1767-1768, segnano un momento magico nella produzione guardesca e il punto di massimo distacco dal cliché canalettiano dei cieli eternamente sereni: la pennellata fluente si coagula nei bruni densi, la superficie liquida si incupisce, nuvole plumbee agitano i cieli mentre un’aria sciroccale sembra appesantire l’atmosfera.’; Succi, ibid., p.49.
8.
James Byam Shaw, ‘Guardi at the Royal Academy’, The Burlington Magazine, January 1955, p.12; reprinted in London, Colnaghi, J.B.S. Selected Writings, 1968, p.113.
9.
Waterhouse, op.cit., no.154; Morassi, op.cit., 1973-1975, Vol.I, p.384, no.390, Vol.II, fig.414; Succi, op.cit., p.54, fig.46.
10. Byam Shaw, op.cit, 1955, p.12 (Colnaghi, op.cit., 1968, p.113). 11. Byam Shaw, op.cit., 1951, p.27. 12. Bernard Aikema, ‘A new view of the city’, in Bernard Aikema and Boudewijn Bakker, Painters of Venice: The Story of the Venetian ‘Veduta’, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1990-1991, p.69, fig.65. The drawing is considerably smaller than the present sheet, and includes wide margins outside framing lines; its measurements are 371 x 557 mm. [image] and 444 x 625 mm. [sheet]. 13. There is a very poor photograph of this drawing, which apparently measures 500 x 750 mm., in the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, from which it is difficult to determine the accuracy of the sheet’s traditional attribution to Francesco Guardi. No.29 Francesco Guardi 1.
James Byam Shaw, ‘Some Venetian Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth Century’, Old Master Drawings, March 1933, p.53; reprinted in London, Colnaghi, J.B.S. Selected Writings, 1968, pp.74-75.
2.
Inv. 2212.2; Vittorio Moschini, Francesco Guardi, London, 1956, pl.59; Ellis Waterhouse, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Paintings, 1967, p.308, no.155; Antonio Morassi, Guardi: I dipinti, Venice, 1973-1975 [reprinted 1985], Vol.I, p.389, no.419, Vol.II, figs.441-442; Dario Succi, Francesco Guardi: Itinerario dell’avventura artistica, Cinisello Balsamo, 1993, p.54, fig.45; Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, ‘La France et la peinture vénitienne de veduta’, in Bozena Anna Kowalczyk, ed., Canaletto Guardi: Les deux maîtres de Venise, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2012-2013, p.43, fig.4.
3.
James Byam Shaw, ‘Guardi at the Royal Academy’, The Burlington Magazine, January 1955, p.12; reprinted in London, Colnaghi, J.B.S. Selected Writings, 1968, p.113.
4.
James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Francesco Guardi, London, 1951, p.34.
5.
Dario Succi, Da Carlevaris ai Tiepolo: Incisori veneti e friulani del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Gorizia and Venice, 1983, pp.412-413, nos.539 and 540, respectively; Antonio Morassi, Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice, 1975, p.146, figs.383 and 350, respectively. The second of these is also illustrated in Rodolfo Pallucchini, Mostra di incisori veneti del settecento, exhibition catalogue, Venice, 1941, p.60, no.205, pl.52, fig.85. The etchings measure 401 x 637 mm. and 410 x 640 mm. to their respective platemarks.
6.
Inv. PD 18-1959; Byam Shaw, op.cit., 1951, pp.61-62, no.19, pl.19; Morassi, op.cit., 1975, p.146, no.381, fig.382; Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Da Pisanello a Tiepolo: Disegni veneti dal Fitzwilliam Museum di Cambridge, exhibition catalogue, 1992, pp.210-211, no.96; Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison, eds., The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London and Washington, D.C., 1994-1995, p.316, fig.212; David Scrase, Italian Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 2011, pp.357-358, no.300. The drawing measures 414 x 755 mm.
7.
Formerly in the collections of the Earl of Carnarvon and Walter Burns, and sold at auction in London, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (‘A Small but Choice Collection of Exceptionally Important Drawings…The Property of a Gentleman’), 22 March 1923, lot 10; Morassi, op.cit., 1975, p.140, no.349, fig.349. The dimensions of the drawing are 409 x 640 mm.
No.30 Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo 1.
Francis (Frank) Edward Bliss (1847-1930) owned over two thousand prints by Alphonse Legros, and may have acquired this drawing from him.
2.
These landscape drawings, which number around seventy-five sheets, include views of the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza, where both Tiepolos worked in 1757, and churches and buildings in Udine, where father and son were also active in 1759.
3.
Michael Levey, Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art, New Haven and London, 1986, p.245.
4.
W[illiam]. B[ateson]., The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters: The Oppenheimer Collection, Oxford, 1921, p.19, no.10. Bateson, who was also an avid collector of Tiepolo drawings, regarded all of the landscape drawings as works by Giambattista.
5.
Knox, op.cit., 1970, unpaginated, no.83a; Knox, op.cit., [1974], p.80, no.67; Cristiana Romalli, Cento disegni dalla Collezione della Fondazione Marco Brunelli, Rome, 2020, p.154, pp.275-276, no.LXVI.