Piazza San Marco, Venice
follower of Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 - Venice 1793)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
927 x 782 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771257
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Piazza San Marco, Venice by a follower of Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 – Venice 1793), looking at St Mark's Cathedral. The cathedral is in the centre, next to which is the Campanile. Before this is the Piazza where people are walking. Stalls in the foreground to the left and the right. Light blue sky with clouds. Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) was born in Venice and specialised in little views of the city. He was a collaborator of Canaletto when he was in his 40s and became later very popular running a large studio of his own. He trained both his younger brother Nicolò and his son Giacomo, whose work is well known and who imitated his father's style. This painting is a 19th-century imitation of a popular composition of the 18th century Venetian school, especially Canaletto and Francesco Guardi who produced many versions of the identical view showing the Piazza San Marco in Venice, scattered with people, with the Basilica in the background and the campanile on the right hand -side. [From V&A description]
Provenance
Sir Edward Durning-Lawrence, Bt; given to the Victoria and Albert Museum Museum in 1901 from whom on loan
Makers and roles
follower of Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 - Venice 1793), artist