Figure Studies, ca. 1765?70, Pen and brown ink, light and dark brown and grayish brown wash, 6 9/16 x 10 1/4 in. (16. 7 x 26 cm), Drawings, Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712?1793 Venice), This brown and gray wash study of figures clustered alongside a colonnade may have been preliminary to one of Guardi?s paintings of ceremonies celebrating the election of a Doge. It is generally recognized that these ceremonial pictures owe inspiration to the ubiquitous prints engraved by Giambattista Brustolon after Canaletto (Feste Dogali [Ducal Ceremonies and Festival] 1766)