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Francesco Guardi
1712-1793
The Virgin in Prayer
ca. 1770-1780
Pen and brown ink and wash on paper.
4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (115 x 90 mm)
Thaw Collection.
1969.20
Notes:
Border ruled in pen and brown ink on old mount, 7 5/8 x 6 inches (194 x 151 mm).
Watermark: none.
Provenance:
J.R. Lancaster, London; sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1965, no.106, repr.; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Lancaster, J. R., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 186, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 49.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 114.
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