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Oil on canvas depicting an Italian landscape of ruins, a Capriccio*, with a Triumphal Arch and figures in the lagoon in Venice, after the Venetian capricci of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), in a gilded wooden frame (18th century), from the early 19th century.
This painting is in good condition and very decorative. It is presented in an 18th-century frame that was later re-cut to fit these dimensions.
Please note: slight damage to the frame, slight wear and tear, see photos.
or architectural caprice, is, in painting, the representation of an imaginary or partially imaginary landscape, combining buildings, ruins and other architectural elements in a fictional and often fantastic way, sometimes with staffage. The capriccio, of Italian origin, is mainly found around the 18th century in Venice, where it is opposed to the register of vedute, a pictorial genre based on the representation of real urban landscapes. Zuccarelli, Visentini, Canaletto are the creators of this particular genre of landscape of which Guardi was to be the most brilliant representative.
