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Francesco Guardi, Capriccio con arco rovinato e mura di paese, Pen and brown ink on laid paper

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Capriccio con arco rovinato e mura di paese

Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)

CHF 22,400 hammer

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Medium: Drawing (ink) · Works on paper all drawing results →
As published: “Pen and brown ink on laid paper”
Support: Paper
Category: Drawings
Dimensions: 17.4 x 25.9 cm, drawing; 25.6 x 34.3 cm, support
Auction house: Kornfeld
Sale: Auction 283: Old Master - Prints and Drawings - Live Auction (283)
Date: September 12, 2024
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Lot: 2175
Estimate: CHF 35,000 – — (≈ $40,957) (≈ £31,402) (≈ €37,180)
Source: Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026

Provenance (3)

Collection Dr Hans Schaeffer, London
Galerie Kornfeld auction, 12 June 1974, lot 79
The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, Lugt 913b

Literature (4)

Catalogue raisonné: Antonio Morassi, Guardi, Tutti i disegni, Venice 1975, p. 188, no. 641, ill. 611 (not 612 as erroneously stated on p. 188)
James Byam Shaw, Unpublished Guardi Drawings, in: Art Quarterly, vol. 17 (1957), pp. 280 f., no. 14
Exhibition
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, London, Exhibition of Old Master and English Drawings, June 1970, cat. no. 50, ill. plate XV

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