A wooded Landscape with a Village on a wide River

Details

Marco Ricci* (1676-1730)
A wooded Landscape with a Village on a wide River
oil on canvas
31¾ x 44in. (80.8 x 112cm.)

Literature

R. Pallucchini, Studi Ricceschi: contributo a Marco, Arte Veneta, IX, 1955, pp. 187 and 189, fig. 216.
E. Martini, La Pittura Veneziana del Settecento, 1964, p. 175, note 87.
A. Scarpa Sonino, Marco Ricci, 1991, p. 124, no. 41, and p. 316, fig. 281.

Exhibited

Bassano del Grappa, Palazzo Sturm, Marco Ricci, Sept. 1-Nov. 10, 1963, pp. 80-1, no. 57, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The pendant to the previous lot.

A related painting is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (Scarpa Sonino, op. cit., p. 138, no. 117, pp. 102-3, color pl. XXXI) and a related gouache is in a London private collection (ibid., p. 146, no. 20, p. 317, fig. 284). These show the same fortified farm which is also shown in drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and at Windsor Castle (ibid., pp. 275 and 316, figs. 191 and 282).

This picture is sold with a certificate dated August 12, 1954, by Professor Antonio Morassi, who describes it as an 'opera originale, bellissima, di mano di Marco Ricci'.