A Capriccio of Roman Ruins, 1727/1729

Not on View

Medium

gouache on kidskin

Dimensions

overall: 30.9 × 45.3 cm (12 3/16 × 17 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1982.38.2

Artists / Makers

Marco Ricci (artist) Venetian, 1676 - 1729

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

on verso labels of Galerie van Diemen & Stichting Nederlandsch; label inscribed: BU. ZII / 48 /Sch.; on verso ingraphite: Hubert Robert [gno.?] Robert des Ruines

Provenance

(Galerie van Diemen & Co., Berlin) 1920; Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit, no. 1216; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1982, no. 54); acquired 1982 (via David Tunick) by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 102, 106, 488, no. 32 (repro. p. 106, color)(entry by Margherita Giacometti).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 53.

Bibliography

1991: Scarpa Sonino, Annalisa. Marco Ricci. Milan, 1991: 144, 334 (cat. T10, with incorrect location).

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 488, no. 32.

2000: Kemp, Martin, The Oxford History of Western Art. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 228, no. 324.