Capriccio of Antique Ruins with Men Gazing at a Classical Orator

1720s

Marco Ricci

Artist, Venetian, 1676 - 1729

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [working proof]

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.8 x 43 cm (11 3/4 x 16 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 31 x 47.2 cm (12 3/16 x 18 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.28.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 8, State [working proof'

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Graf, Berlin (1878 - 1951)(Lugt 1092a). (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 62.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: B8/230; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Pilo 230 B. 8 I. Aetzdruck

Wikidata ID

Q76348096

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