A wooded landscape with figures resting along a path

The drawing is attached to a characteristic mount on which many of the drawings by Ricci are laid down. The provenance of these drawings was analyzed by A. Bettagno in 'Disegni di Marco Ricci: una questione di provenienza e un problema di despersione', Hommage au dessin, mlanges offerts Roseline Bacou, Rimini, 1996, pp. 418-37. The drawings were bound together in an album broken up in the Geiger sale in 1920. The album was inscribed 'Sebastiani Ricci Bellunesis Pictoris Eximii Schedae' and was owned by Anton Maria Zanetti in the 18th Century. Alessandro Bettagno mentions that two books of drawings were described as by Marco Ricci on page 19 of the manuscript inventory of Zanetti's library in 1744.
A drawing from this series was sold in the de Boer collection in these Rooms, 4 July 1995, lot 83.