GIOVANNI ANTONIO GUARDI (Vienna 1699-1760 Venice) Virgin and Child.
Red chalk on cream laid paper. 320x215mm; 12 1/2x8 1/2 inches, the full sheet with deckled edges.
Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts.
According to George Knox, in a letter dated November 22, 1997, this is a drawing by Guardi based on a drawing by Giovanni B. Tiepolo (see Hadeln, Handzeichnungen von G. B. Tiepolo, Florence and Munich, 1927, number 71).
Tiepolo (1696-1770) married Maria Cecilia Guardi, the sister of the Venetian artists Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi .
