An Architectural Capriccio, with Classical Ruins

ca. 1780–85

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.3 x 19.5 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.339
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Francesco Guardi. An Architectural Capriccio, with Classical Ruins. Francesco Guardi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. 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

An Architectural Capriccio, with Classical Ruins — Francesco Guardi. ca. 1780–85.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash. Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.3 x 19.5 cm).

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

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

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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