Studies of Walking Figures — Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi

Studies of Walking Figures

1712–93

Dating
Date range
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on blue paper faded to blue-brown. Another figure in black chalk at lower left of drawing
Dimensions
6 7/16 x 8 5/8in. (16.3 x 21.9cm)
Collection no.
40.91.3
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Francesco Guardi. Studies of Walking Figures. Francesco Guardi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Studies of Walking Figures — Francesco Guardi. 1712–93.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on blue paper faded to blue-brown. Another figure in black chalk at lower left of drawing. Dimensions: 6 7/16 x 8 5/8in. (16.3 x 21.9cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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