View of Dolo on the Brenta

between 1774 and 1776

Francesco Guardi Italian, 1712-1793

On View

European: Grand Tour of Italy, Level 2, South Wing

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Title View of Dolo on the Brenta

Artwork Date between 1774 and 1776

Artist Francesco Guardi

Life Dates 1712-1793

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 19 × 26 1/16 inches (48.2 × 66.2 cm) Framed: 24 9/16 × 31 3/4 × 3 inches (62.4 × 80.6 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.359

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Provenance

Mr. Clark (London, England)

1926-1927, (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England)

1927, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Micigan, USA)

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1927, p. 6, cat. 11.

Heil, W. "The Edgar W. Whitcomb Collection at Detroit" Art in America 16, no. 2 (February 1928): pp. 49-58, p. 50 (ill.).

Heil, W. Ms Catalogue. 1931, p. 16.

New York, World's Fair,

Valentiner, W., ed. Masterpieces of Art: Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture, 1300-1800. Exh. cat., World's Fair. New York, 1939, cat. 168, pl. 37.

Goering, M., Francesco Guardi. 1944, pp. 46, 74, note 44.

"The Riches of Detroit Emerge." Art News (May 1949): pp. 36-37 (cover ill.).

Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces Of Painting From Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit, 1949, no. 12.

European Paintings from the Gulbenkian Collection. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1950, p. 38, cat. 14.

Tiepolo et Guardi. Exh. cat., Galerie Cailleux. Paris, 1952, pp. 64, 89, note 99.

Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture Given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954 p. 93 (ill.).

Director's Choice. Exh. cat., Ringling Art Museum. Sarasota, 1955, no. 18.

Exhibition Of Notable Paintings From Midwestern Collections. Exh. cat., Joslyn Art Museum. Omaha, 1956-57.

Old Masters. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton. Hamilton, November 1958, no. 14.

The Guardi Family: Selections From American Museums and Collections. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, 1958, no. 13 (ill.).

Paintings By Francesco Guardi. Exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, 1958, cat. 9.

Collectors' Firsts. Exh. cat., Atlanta Art Association. Atlanta, 1959, no. 20.

Haskell, F. "Francesco Guardi as Vedutista and some of his patrons." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23 (1960): p. 256.

Couto, João. Pinturas de Colecção de Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Exh. cat., Nacional de Arte Antiga. Lisbon, 1961, p. 100, cat. 47.

Constable, W.G. Canaletto, 1962, vol. 1, cat. 371, p. 356.

Constable, W. Canaletto. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, et al. Toronto, 1964, p. 170, cat. 141 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 111, (ill.).

Pignatti, T. "The Brothers Guardi: Mystery from the Venetian Carnival." Art News Annual 31 (1966) pp. 23-53, 147 (ill.), cited p. 147.

Zampetti, P. I Vedutisti Veneziani del Settecento. Exh. cat., Palazzo Ducale. Venice, 1967, p. 316, cat. 142, (figs. 142-142a).

Pallucchini, R. and F. Watson. "The Gulbenkian Guardis." Burlington Magazine 109 (February 1967): p. 97.

Shaw, J. James Byam Shaw: Collected Writings. London, 1968, pp. 117-118.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 96.

Morassi, A. Guardi. Venice, 1973, v. 1, pp. 254, 435; vol. 2, cat. 671, pl. 627 (figs. 625-26).

Bortolatto, L.R. L'Opea Completa de Francisco Guardi. Milan, 1974, pp. xxxvii-xxxviii, 106, 107, cat. 305 (ill.).

Maryland Heritage: European Painting at the Time of the Revolution 1750-1800. Exh. cat., Walters Gallery. Baltimore, 1976, p 49, no. 87 (ill.).

Constable W.G. and J. Links. Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, 2nd ed. 1989, p. 381 cat. no. 371.

Morassi, A. Guardi: i dipinti. Milan 1993, p. 435, cat. 671 (fig. 627).

Francesco Guardi: vedute, capricci, feste, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore. Exh. cat. Venice, 1993, p. 120.

Os Guardi da Colecção C. Gulbenkian. Exh. cat., Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon, 1993, p. 12.

Derstine, Andria. "Views of Dolo by Canaletto, Bellotto, Cimaroli and Guardi." The Burlington Magazine (October 2004): pp. 675-682, pp. 681-682 (fig. 39). [1774-76; as first of three versions.]

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 104-107, cat. no. 33.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 98.

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Francesco Guardi, View of Dolo on the Brenta, between 1774 and 1776, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.359.