Lot Essay
The fourth drawing in this lot is a copy of a drawing of the same size in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, from the Janos Scholz Collection (A. Scarpa Sonnino, Marco Ricci, Milan, 1992, fig. 232).
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A classical landscape with ruins, a pyramid and two figures
Details
French School, 17th (?) Century
A classical landscape with ruins, a pyramid and two figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (outlines incised)
8 x 12 1/8 in. (20.5 x 30.8 cm); and three further drawings:
(ii) Italian School, 18th Century, An extensive landscape with an imaginary view of Rome, black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, 8½ x 15 3/8 in. (21.6 x 39 cm);
(iii) Circle of Gaspard Dughet, called Gaspard Poussin (Rome 1615-1675), An extensive mountain landscape, trees in the foreground, black and red chalk, grey wash on (formerly) blue paper, 9 5/8 x 14½ in. (24.4 x 36.9 cm);
(iv) After Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676-1729 Venice), A wooded landscape with robbers attacking travellers, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, 14 1/8 x 21 in. (36 x 53.4 cm)
(4)
A classical landscape with ruins, a pyramid and two figures
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (outlines incised)
8 x 12 1/8 in. (20.5 x 30.8 cm); and three further drawings:
(ii) Italian School, 18th Century, An extensive landscape with an imaginary view of Rome, black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, 8½ x 15 3/8 in. (21.6 x 39 cm);
(iii) Circle of Gaspard Dughet, called Gaspard Poussin (Rome 1615-1675), An extensive mountain landscape, trees in the foreground, black and red chalk, grey wash on (formerly) blue paper, 9 5/8 x 14½ in. (24.4 x 36.9 cm);
(iv) After Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676-1729 Venice), A wooded landscape with robbers attacking travellers, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, 14 1/8 x 21 in. (36 x 53.4 cm)
(4)
Provenance
(i) Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823) (L. 2426).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(ii)
Unidentified collector's mark in brown ink 'S' (not in Lugt).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iii)
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) (L. 2951, his paraphe and his number '179').
Perhaps Richard Cosway (L. 628, damaged mark)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (according Popham's typescript catalogue).
John Watkins Brett, London (1805-1863); Christie's, 8 April 1864, lot 489 'G. Poussin - A landscape - bistre' (7s to Bloxam).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iv)
William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836) (his mount and L. 2663); T. Philipe, London, 6-23 June 1814, lot 1102 'RICCI (Marco), One –a grand landschape, with banditti attaching two travellers – pen and bistre-wash– full of character and expression'.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription and attribution 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ Ricci, marco./ a.d 1680-1730/ Wm Young Ottley's Collection/ Lawrence Collection' (on the mount).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(ii)
Unidentified collector's mark in brown ink 'S' (not in Lugt).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iii)
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680-1765) (L. 2951, his paraphe and his number '179').
Perhaps Richard Cosway (L. 628, damaged mark)
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (according Popham's typescript catalogue).
John Watkins Brett, London (1805-1863); Christie's, 8 April 1864, lot 489 'G. Poussin - A landscape - bistre' (7s to Bloxam).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum.
(iv)
William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836) (his mount and L. 2663); T. Philipe, London, 6-23 June 1814, lot 1102 'RICCI (Marco), One –a grand landschape, with banditti attaching two travellers – pen and bistre-wash– full of character and expression'.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445).
M.H. Bloxam, by whom given to Rugby School Art Museum; with his inscription and attribution 'Rugby School Art Museum e dono Matt: H: Bloxam/ Ricci, marco./ a.d 1680-1730/ Wm Young Ottley's Collection/ Lawrence Collection' (on the mount).
Literature
(i) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 32, as Giovanni Paolo Panini.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, II, Milan, 1994, no. R 1097, ill. (as French School, 17th century).
(ii) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 75, as style of Nicolas Poussin.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, II, Milan, 1994, no. R 1098, ill. (as Italian School, 17th century).
(iii) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 73, as Gaspar Dughet.
(iv) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 48, as Marco Ricci.
J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection, VI, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, p. 88, under no. 69 (as M. Ricci, entry by G. Knox).
M. Nadali, ‘Del disegno di Marco Ricci’, Arte Documento, XVI, 2002, p. 173, note 11.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, II, Milan, 1994, no. R 1097, ill. (as French School, 17th century).
(ii) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 75, as style of Nicolas Poussin.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, II, Milan, 1994, no. R 1098, ill. (as Italian School, 17th century).
(iii) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 73, as Gaspar Dughet.
(iv) Anne Popham, typescript catalogue, no. 48, as Marco Ricci.
J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection, VI, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, p. 88, under no. 69 (as M. Ricci, entry by G. Knox).
M. Nadali, ‘Del disegno di Marco Ricci’, Arte Documento, XVI, 2002, p. 173, note 11.
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