Francesco Guardi

Capriccio with Roman Ruins

18th century

Dating

Within this century

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink drawn by the artist; sheet glued onto secondary paper support

Dimensions

sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (27.6 x 40 cm)

Collection no.

2005.330.5

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Francesco Guardi. Capriccio with Roman Ruins. Francesco Guardi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.