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The Fortress of San Andrea from the Lagoon
1780s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black on laid paper, with some white gouache
- Dimensions
- overall (approximate): 29.6 × 45.8 cm (11 5/8 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1963.15.13
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francesco Guardi. The Fortress of San Andrea from the Lagoon. Francesco Guardi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Guardi,_The_Fortress_of_San_Andrea_from_the_Lagoon,_1780s,_NGA_47099.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Fortress of San Andrea from the Lagoon — Francesco Guardi. 1780s.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black on laid paper, with some white gouache.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (approximate): 29.6 × 45.8 cm (11 5/8 × 18 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1963.15.13. Samuel H. Kress Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.