Figure Studies, ca. 1765–70, Pen and brown ink, light and dark brown and grayish brown wash, 6 9/16 x 10 1/4 in. (16.7 x 26 cm), Drawings, Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice), This brown and gray wash study of figures clustered alongside a colonnade may have been preliminary to one of Guardi’s paintings of ceremonies celebrating the election of a Doge. It is generally recognized that these ceremonial pictures owe inspiration to the ubiquitous prints engraved by Giambattista Brustolon after Canaletto (Feste Dogali [Ducal Ceremonies and Festival] 1766)
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Figure Studies, ca, 1765–70, Pen, brown ink, light, dark brown, grayish brown wash, 6 9/16 x 10 1/4, 16.7 26 cm, Drawings, Francesco Guardi, Italian, Venice, 1712–1793, brown, gray, study, figures clustered, alongside, colonnade, preliminary, Guardi, paintings, ceremonies celebrating, election, Doge, generally recognized, ceremonial pictures, owe, inspiration, ubiquitous prints, engraved, Giambattista Brustolon, Canaletto, Feste Dogali, Ducal, Ceremonies, Festival, 1766
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