Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
Francesco Guardi
1775–1780
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashprints and drawinginorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)
About
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.
