Circle of Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730) – River landscape with figures.

Circle of Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730) – River landscape with figures.

34 x 26 cm (without frame) – 43 x 35 cm (with frame).

Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.

Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 – Venice 1730) was a leading figure in the revival of Venetian landscape painting between the 17th and 18th centuries. Trained under his uncle Sebastiano Ricci, he explored the Roman classicist tradition of Gaspard Dughet and Salvator Rosa, before moving to Milan, Dalmatia, and London, where he worked as a set designer and landscape painter for Italian opera houses. Upon returning to Venice, he developed an original landscape language based on compositions of successive planes, architectural ruins, and wide, flowing skies, laying the foundations for the 18th-century developments of the genre, later continued by Zuccarelli and Zais.

The work presented here is part of Ricci's circle, drawing on his characteristic compositional elements: the scenographic construction of sloping levels, the ruined tower dominating the hill, and the sky animated by large masses of clouds. The wind-swept tree on the left, a recurring device in Ricci's compositions to balance the scene, and the figure carrying a barrel on his shoulders, similar to the figures of dockworkers recurrent in his seaports, further confirm this affinity. The remaining figures of wayfarers and washerwomen along the shore hark back to the repertoire of Canaletto-style caricatures widespread in Venetian landscape painting of the time, while the warm, earthy palette and penchant for an Arcadian atmosphere complete the painting's stylistic framework.

Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial surface.

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