The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pen and ink sketch of an ornate ceremonial galley with rows of oars on rippling water, with distant boats.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical villa with a pedimented facade, gate with statues, trees, and a broad lawn.

Pencil sketch of four standing men in cloaks and tricorn hats below an architectural cornice.

Pen and brown wash drawing of an imagined palace courtyard with tall arches, columns, and small figures.

Pen and brown wash drawing of men playing dice beside a sunlit gothic church and bell tower in a Venetian square.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a palace garden entrance with steps, columns, an arched doorway, a tall tree and small figures.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted arched passageway with columns, opening onto a distant square with small figures.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted passageway with arched niches, a shrine, a hanging lantern and a figure at left.

Pen and ink drawing with red chalk of a vaulted colonnade with tall columns, small figures, and a statue niche.

Brown ink and wash drawing of an arched palace courtyard with staircases, balconies, columns and small figures.

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a colonnaded arch with statues in niches.

Brown ink drawing of a city fire with burning rooftops, smoke, and a crowd of onlookers in the street below.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lagoon with a tall tower, a sailboat, small figures and low buildings under a cloudy sky.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a formal garden with a ruined arch, classical pavilions, walls, statues, and strolling figures.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a Venetian piazza with columns, arcaded buildings, a tall tower and small figures.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a lagoon shore with buildings, tall cypress trees, a figure, and a distant sailing boat.

Ink and wash drawing of figures on a grand staircase beneath a stone arch, with a palatial facade and statue beyond.

Pen and green wash drawing of rococo scrollwork and leafy foliage forming an ornamental border around a blank center.

Pen and brown wash drawing of groups of cloaked figures walking on blue-grey paper, signed Guardi at lower left.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a capriccio harbor with a stone bridge, ruined towers, classical columns, ships and figures.

Grey wash drawing of a domed waterfront building with boats and sailing ships on calm water.

Ink and wash drawing of a lagoon town with tall bell towers, gondolas with rowers, and a sailing ship at left.

Grey wash drawing of gondolas on a Venetian lagoon with buildings on both sides and a distant bell tower.

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian-style canal with gondolas, buildings, a sailboat, and a distant bell tower.

Grey wash drawing of a Venetian canal with gondolas, rowers, a sailboat, a bridge and a church with a bell tower.

Grey wash drawing of a brick tower and low buildings on a lagoon shore, with gondolas and rowing boats on the water.

Pen and wash drawing of an arcaded square with elegantly dressed figures and dogs in the foreground.

Pale watercolor of Venetian lagoon with gondolas and sailboats before the domed church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

Watercolor drawing of a busy city piazza with flagpoles, market tents, a clock tower and strolling figures under a blue sky.

Grey wash drawing of San Giorgio Maggiore church across Venetian lagoon, with gondolas, rowers and sailing ships.