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Collection Online as of December 26, 2025

Head of a Woman

c. 1739
(Italian, 1699–1760)
Framed: 62.5 x 53.5 x 6 cm (24 5/8 x 21 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 45.5 x 37.6 cm (17 15/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
  • Toschi (Ravenna, Italy, and Forli, Italy).
    A. M. Mucchi, (Sals [near Bologna], Italy), 1929.
    Saville Gallery, Ltd. (London, England).
    J. S. Oliver (Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England) (sold, Sotheby's, London, February 13, 1946, lot 20).
    David M. Koetser Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 359; Mentioned: p. 358-360
    Francis, Henry. "Francesco Guardi's 'Head of a Woman.'" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (November 1947): 237-239. Mentioned: p. 238; Reproduced: p. 243 www.jstor.org
    Coe, Nancy. "Four Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Guardi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 9 (November 1957): 198-203. Mentioned: p. 203 www.jstor.org
  • Augsburg, 1975: "Johann Liss," cat E84
    London, Matthiesen Gallery, 1939: "Venetian Paintings and Drawings," cat. no. 73.
    London, Tómas Harris Gallery, 1932: "Venetian Artists, XVI and the XVIII Centuries," cat. no. 6.
    London, Saville Gallery ltd., 1930: "Exhibition of Paintings by Canaletto and Guardi," cat. no. 7, illus.
    Venice, Palazzo delle Bienale of the Public Gardens, 1929: "mostra del Settecento," cat. no. 17.
    Bologna, 1922: "Mostra fiorentina della pittura Italiana del 600-700," cat. no. 40 bis (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
  • {{cite web|title=Head of a Woman|url=false|author=Antonio Guardi|year=c. 1739|access-date=26 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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