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Francesco Guardi

Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon

1775/80
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
27.1 × 38.5 cm (10.7 × 15.2 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.

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