Francesco Guardi
Fantastic Landscape
ca. 1765155.6 x 273.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1941
Provenance
by descent to conte Paolo di Colloredo Mels, marchese di Santa Sofia, Castello di Colloredo di Monte Albano, near Udine (by 1893–at least 1905, sold to Steinmeyer
with Steinmeyer, Cologne, until 1906, sold to Bourgeois
with Stephan Bourgeois, Cologne, 1906–10, sold to Trotti
with Trotti, Paris, from 1910, sold to Rothschild
baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris, sold to Gimpel & Wildenstein
with Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris and New York, until 1912, sold to Alexander
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, New York (1912–d. 1935, her estate, 1935–41)
her daughters, Mrs. Arnold Whitridge, Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, and Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, New York (1941, sold to MMA)
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Other works by Francesco Guardi
Lagoon near Venice
Regatta on the Grand Canal, near the Rialto Bridge, Venice
1780 - 1793
1780 - 1793
A mountainous river landscape with a hunting party
A mountainous river landscape with boaters, fishermen and a fortune teller
San Giorgio Maggiore and the Giudecca, Venice
c. 1780
c. 1780