MARCO RICCI (1676-1730), ENTOURAGE DE - Lot 63

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MARCO RICCI (1676-1730), ENTOURAGE DE - Lot 63
MARCO RICCI (1676-1730), ENTOURAGE DE Country landscapes, animated with characters Pair of oils on canvas. H_37 cm W_43 cm Each presented in a gilded and carved 18th century Venetian wooden 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. His composed landscapes, populated by small figures captured in anecdote, with tormented skies, embellished in the distance with cities nestled in the mountains or ruins on the river banks, were highly appreciated for the decoration of palaces, in Veneto as in Great Britain. Retired by the Earl of Manchester, he went there twice, in 1708-1710 then 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 stage, 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. We thank Mr Pierre-Antoine Martenet for his help in the elaboration of this fact sheet.
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