Marco Ricci
1676-1729
Brigands Attacking Two Travelers
14 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (372 x 538 mm)
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1976.38
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Marco Ricci spent much of his life in Venice but was also active in Rome and Florence, as well as in England. Among the many artists who influenced his work was the seventeenth-century painter Salvator Rosa, whose romantic landscapes inhabited by brigands may have been a source for the treatment of the subject in this large, finished drawing. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Marco Ricci spent much of his life in Venice but was also active in Rome and Florence, as well as in England. Among the many artists who influenced his work was the seventeenth-century painter Salvator Rosa, whose romantic landscapes inhabited by brigands may have been a source for the treatment of the subject in this large, finished drawing. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of lining, in black chalk, "Ricci, Marco Venedig Belluno".
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Marmier, Marco, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Marmier, Marco, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 131, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 287.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 287.
Classification
Century Drawings
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