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View in a town - a capriccio

Maker

(artist)
1676-1730

Title

View in a town - a capriccio

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.558

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

a pupil of the artist's uncle, Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venice (1680-1767); Pietro Cernazai, Udine (1804-1858); Antonio dal Zotto, Venice (1841-1918); Benno Geiger, Italy (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, part of lots 259-272 (141 landscape drawings by Ricci sold in 14 lots, formerly belonging to an album titled 'Marci Ricci Bellunensis Pictoris Eximii Schedae'); purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), late 1923 or early 1924 (£1.6, apparently not at a sale, according to notes in the file); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

Marco Ricci, Bassano del Grappa & Italy, 01/09/1963-01/10/1963

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 49

Pilo, Giuseppe Maria, 'Marco Ricci Ritrovato' in 'Paragone', 1963 - pp. 21-36
no. 165

Marco Ricci: catologo della mostra, Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, 1963
no. 127

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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