Marco Ricci 1676-1730 Original Pen And Ink Landscape Drawing Very RARE Signed

Size is 7” x 12”.

With frame 13” x 18”..

• Biography from Dorotheum, ViennaMarco Ricci was born in 1676 in Belluno, Italy.

• Marco Ricci studied with his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, excelling in the depiction of landscapes (see P. E. Girardi, Descrizione de’ cartoni disegnati da Carlo Cignani e de’ quadri dipinti da Sebastiano Ricci posseduti dal Signor Giuseppe Smith Console della Gran Bretagna, Venice 1749, p. 74).

• Marco Ricci also studied with Antonio Francesco Peruzzini, the landscape painter who often collaborated with Sebastiano Ricci at the end of the 17th century.

• Marco’s artistic influence also derived from the 16th century tradition of Venetian landscape painting, known through the study of Titian, Domenico Campagnola and Nicolò Boldrini: on the basis of their example, the artist discovered the new expressive potential of landscape painting.

• This was a genre which, in 17th century Italy, had found its models in the scenes of innocence, solemnity and nostalgic beauty that characterised the works of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet.

• Marco Ricci passed away in 1730 in Venice, Italy.