Art, literature & history
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon
1775/80
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1968.309
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francesco Guardi. Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon — Francesco Guardi. 1775/80.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: 27.1 × 38.5 cm (10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Francesco Guardi was an 18th-century Venetian landscape painter whose most original contributions were imaginative capriccios, or fantasies such as these.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
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.