The Adoration of the Shepherds

Details

Sebastiano Ricci (Cividal di Belluno 1659-1734 Venice)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
oil on canvas
265/8 x 197/8 in. (67.7 x 50.7 cm.)

Provenance

Wendland; sale Ball and Graupe, Berlin, 24 April 1931, lot 11, pl. 2.

Literature

M. Levey, The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, London, 1964, p. 100, under no. 646.
J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, Hove, 1976, p. 68, no. 213.
J. Daniels, L'Opera Completa di Sebastiano Ricci, Milan, 1976, no. 172.
A. Rizzi, catalogue of the exhibition, Sebastiano Ricci, Villa Manin di Passariano, 25 June-19 November 1989, p. 162.

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Lot Essay

The composition relates closely to Ricci's altarpiece of circa 1705 at Saluzzo for which there is a modello (with the same arched top format) in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court.
Another version of the present picture, formerly in the Caspari collection, Munich, is rejected as a copy by Daniels, loc. cit., making it tempting to cite the present work as the model for the engraving by Pietro Monaco, which records an identical composition, of rectangular format, successively in the collections of Antonio Maria Zanetti, Gaspare Diziani and Consul Smith.

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