The House of Marco Ricci in the Bellunese

Marco Ricci Italian

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Marco Ricci was the nephew of the celebrated Baroque painter Sebastiano Ricci, with whom he collaborated in the 1720s. This pastoral landscape of 1726 is significant less for its aesthetic attributes than for its telling inscription on the verso. Marco Ricci records that the house is his own, that it is located in the Bellunese, among the mountains, that it has a view of an adjacent monastery, and that it was made by the artist and "given on the spot" to Humphrey Mildmay, Esq. in 1726. This exchange is evocative of the many interrelationships of local Italian artists and Grand Tourists in the eighteenth century. Indeed, Ricci’s gift of this keepsake drawing suggests a very personal association.

The House of Marco Ricci in the Bellunese, Marco Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1676–1730 Venice (?)), Pen and brown ink, brown wash

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The House of Marco Ricci in the Bellunese, Marco Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1676–1730 Venice (?)), Pen and brown ink, brown wash
The House of Marco Ricci in the Bellunese, Marco Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1676–1730 Venice (?)), Pen and brown ink, brown wash

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