MARCO RICCI Lot n° 1167

(Belluno, 1676 - Venice, 1730) Landscape Oil on oval canvas, 116X165 cm It is due to Annalisa Scarpa to attribute the painting to Marco Ricci, placing its execution in the early years of his career, when the painter's style was still influenced by the late Baroque landscape taste of Antonio Francesco Peruzzini and the examples of Johann Anton Eismann and Pieter Mulier known as the Tempest. To these names must be added that of Magnasco, whom ours may have known around the mid-1790s, when in the company of his uncle Sebastiano, fresh from Farnese and Roman successes, he worked in Lombardy in the church of San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan. As can be seen, the artist's training reflects the best examples of the seventeenth-century landscape genre, and in the case under consideration it is easy to find parallels with the works in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden (Scarpa, pp. 120-121) and the canvases in the Warsaw Museum (Scarpa, pp. 132, pp. 14-15), whose proximity to the Mulier that was in Venice until 1697 places an appropriate chronological reference within the very early years of the eighteenth century. The painting is accompanied by a critical file by Annalisa Scarpa. Reference bibliography: A. Scarpa Sonino, Marco Ricci, Milan 1991, ad vocem D. Succi and A. Delneri, Marco Ricci and the Eighteenth-Century Veneto Landscape, Milan 1993, pp. 87-91, pp. 180-183