San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 - Venice 1793)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1732 - 1793
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
632 x 868 x 75 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446815
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793). The Church and Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, left, with the point of the Giudecca seen on the right beyond the Canale della Grazia; gondolas and sailing boats.
Provenance
Lord Foley (1852 - 1918) sale, Ruxley Lodge, 14 October 1919, lots 594, 595, Views of Venice by Guardi, refer to this and NT 446814; Otto Gutekunst (P. & D. Colnaghi); with Knoedler, 1921, from whom it was acquired by Lord Bearsted; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Francesco Guardi (Venice 1712 - Venice 1793), artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.29
