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Sebastiano Ricci

Study of Apostles for the Presentation of the Eucharist

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

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Sebastiano Ricci

Belluno 1659 - 1734 Venice

Study of Apostles for the Presentation of the Eucharist


Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, on two joined sheets of paper;

bears old attribution in black chalk, verso: S. Ricci and a further attribution: Ricci

149 by 350 mm; 5 7/8 by 13 3/4 in


Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825), Paris (L.779); 
Philippsohn Collection, New Jersey;
with C. & J. Goodfriend, New York,
where acquired, 1996
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1948 (no catalogue)

The present work, drawn on two carefully joined sheets of paper, is a preparatory study for the group of Apostles gathered on the left side of Ricci's fresco of the Presentation of the Eucharist,1 in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Santa Giustina, Padua.


1. A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 2006, pp. 262-3, no. 339, p. 457, fig. 213, reproduced and pl. XXII (detail)