Landscape with hermits
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1676-1730
(artist)
1676-1730
Title
Landscape with hermits
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 29.2 cm
Width: 29.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.559
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 (18 shillings, 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
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. 48
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. 106
Illus. repr.
cat. no. 48
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. 106
Illus. repr.
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: right of centre, graphite, circled and upside down: “2”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: right of centre, graphite, circled and upside down: “2”.
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