Lot n° 4
Estimation :
1500 - 2000
EUR
Entourage de Marco RICCI (1676-1730)
Country landscapes, animated with characters
Oil on canvas, one pair.
37 x 43 cm.
Each presented in an 18th century carved giltwood Venetian frame.
Nephew of the great Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), Marco Ricci was the renovator of the Venetian landscape school at the beginning of the 18th century (fig.1.). His composed landscapes (fig.2.), peopled with small figures captured in the anecdote, with tormented skies, embellished in the distance with cities nestled in the mountains or ruins by the riverside, will be much appreciated for the decoration of palaces (fig.3), in Veneto as in Great Britain.
Retired by the Earl of Manchester, he went there twice, in 1708-1710 and 1711-1714, allowing him to reach a public of great means and to infuse this Italomania in England, a phenomenon that would become, in the next generation, proverbial.
When the phenomenon of Grand-Tourism took off, Venice became an obligatory stopover, to the great benefit of the painters Canaletto and Guardi who, not content to draw from Ricci's works the genesis of their stars and capricci, enjoyed the considerable descent of his clientele.
Comparative illustrations:
Fig.1. Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (1689-1770) after Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), Portrait of Marco Ricci, Engraving. Private collection.
Fig.2. Marco Ricci (1676-1729) Landscape, ca. 1700. Venice, Museum of the Venetian 18th century, Ca'Rezzonico.
Fig.3. Marco Ricci (1676-1729), Rehearsal of an opera, ca. 1709, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.524.
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