Capriccio Landscape
Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1708 - 1716
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
648 x 508 mm (25 1/2 x 20 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530076.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Capriccio Landscape by Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730), circa 1708/16. An upright oval romantic Italianate landscape with large rocky cliff to right, topped by a castle gate surmounted by massive crenellated fortifications. Below is a peasant's house. There are figures standing and seated on a rock in the foreground. A decorative piece in the manner of Magnasco. Marco Ricci came to England along with Pellegrini in 1708, in the retinue of the 4th Earl of Manchester, who was returning from an embassy to Venice, and again with his uncle Sebastiano Ricci, from 1711/12-16. His speciality was landscape, often painted in gouache on leather.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Ralph Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne (1898–1985)
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730), artist