The Abduction of Europa (recto); Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena (?) (verso)
Framed: 17 1/2 × 21 5/8 × 1 1/4 inches (44.45 × 54.94 × 3.18 cm)
Venetian Drawings 1600-1800, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, April 1-May 8, 1960; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960, no. 42, as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
Gods of High Olympus, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-March 20, 1983, no. 6, as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 41, as The Abduction of Europa (recto) and Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena (?) (verso).
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as The Abduction of Europa (recto) and Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena (?) (verso).
Mythological Subjects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-December 15, 2013, no cat., as The Abduction of Europa (recto) and Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena (?) (verso).
Antiquariato Coccoli, Brescia, Italy;
Private collection, Zurich;
János Scholz (1903-1993), New York, by 1963;
Important Old Master Drawings sale, Christie’s, London, March 26, 1963, lot 272, as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi, as The Rape of Europe;
Purchased from Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
Giuseppe Fiocco, “Il Problema di Francesco Guardi,” Arte Veneta 7 (1952): 101, 105, (repro.).
Terisio Pignatti, “Un disegno di Antonio Guardi donate al Museo Correr,” Bollettino dei Musei Civici Veneziani, nos. 1-2 (1957): 29, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
Alfred Neumeyer and János Scholz, Venetian Drawings 1600-1800, exh. cat. (Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Gallery, 1960), unpaginated, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
“Christie’s” ad, The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 720 (March 1963): unpaginated, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi, as The Rape of Europa.
Catalogue of Important Old Master Drawings (London: Christie’s, March 25-26, 1963), 67, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi, as The Rape of Europe.
George L. McKenna, “A Drawing by Giovanni Antonio Guardi,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 8 (December 1967): 3-8, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
Alice Binion, Antonio and Francesco Guardi: Their Life and Milieu with a Catalogue of the Figure Drawings (New York: Garland, 1976), 321, as wrongly attributed to the Guardi and perhaps by Diziani.
Ross E. Taggart, Gods of High Olympus, exh.cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 8, 17, (repro.), as by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 138-40, (repro.), as The Abduction of Europa (recto) and Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena (?) (verso).
