A Procession of Triumphal Cars in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Celebrating the Visit of the Conti del Nord (recto); Three Sketches of Arches (verso)
1782
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- 25.9 × 36.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192217
This drawing records a grand procession through Venice's Piazza San Marco on the penultimate day of the 1782 celebrations for the visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul (Pavel) Petrovitch and his wife Maria Feodorovna. Francesco Guardi was likely commissioned by the Venetian state to document the ducal visit. Drawing from the vantage point of the Procuratie Nuove (a palace on one side of the piazza), Guardi sketched five carriages festooned with allegories, which were meant to celebrate the governments of Catherine the Great and Venice. In order to include as much of the procession as possible,…
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1955.164
Registry history
- 1782 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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