School of SEBASTIANO RICCI (1659-1734)

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School of SEBASTIANO RICCI (1659-1734)

Moses striking the Rock

oil on canvas
38 x 51¾in. (96. 5 x 131.5cm.)
Provenance
Telfair Academy, Savannah, Georgia
with M. Knoedler and Co., New York
Literature
J. Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci, 1976, p. 47, no. 145, under note 2

Lot Essay

Based on a bozzetto in the collection of Her Majesty, The Queen at Hampton Court, for one of the three large canvases executed by Sebastiano and Marco Ricci for the Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano on the Guidecca, Venice, between 1718-20, which is now in the Fondazione Cini, S. Giorgio, Venice on loan from the Accademia

In a Venetian 18th century carved and gilded frame