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FRANCESCO GUARDI (VENICE 1712-1793)
The Madonna in prayer
oil on canvas
1414 x 1112 in. (36.2 x 29.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Karl Haberstock, Berlin, by 1925.
Literature
G. Fiocco, 'Guardi as a Figure Painter', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XLVI, no. 266, May 1925, p. 229, pl. 1B.
A. Morassi, 'Conclusioni su Antonio e Francesco Guardi', Emporium, November 1951, p. 211, fig. 23.
A. Morassi, L'opera Completa Di Antonio E Francesco Guardi, Milan, 1973, I, pp. 145 and 343, no. 188; II, fig. 207.
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