Attributed to Marco Ricci

Landscape with travelers by rustic buildings

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January 26, 04:31 PM GMT

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7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Property from the Collection formed by the Duc de Talleyrand

Marco Ricci

Belluno 1676 - 1730 Venice

Landscape with travelers by rustic buildings

Pen and brown ink and grey and brown wash with touches of green and red wash

164 by 220 mm; 6½ by 8⅝ in.

Marie-Pierre-Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand (1859-1937), Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt;
from whose heirs acquired by the British Rail Pension Fund;
with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox Ltd, London,
from whom acquired in 1993 by Patrick and Mavis Walker, London

A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan 1958, no. 57 (as Bernardo Bellotto), reproduced

This charming, rustic landscape was previously attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (see Literature), but it is more comparable in style to the work of Marco Ricci. In fact, Morassi, in his 1958 catalogue entry, even remarked that the figures were reminiscent of those seen in Marco Ricci's drawings.

A comparable landscape drawing by Ricci is in the Royal Collection, at Windsor Castle.¹

^1. A. Scarpa Sonino, Marco Ricci, Milan 1991, p. 308, no. 261, reproduced