Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso)

Francesco Guardi

1712–93 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); pen and light brown ink for costumed figures; dark brown ink for the other figures; in graphite, drawing of a head in profile (verso) · Drawings and Prints

Artist

Francesco Guardi

Date

1712–93

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); pen and light brown ink for costumed figures; dark brown ink for the other figures; in graphite, drawing of a head in profile (verso)

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1937