Marina with sailing ships, Marco Ricci (Belluno, 1676 – Venice, 1730) attributable

Marco Ricci (Belluno, 1676 – Venice, 1730) attributable

Marina with sailing ships

oil on canvas (cm. 55 x 84 – with frame cm. 71 x 100)

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This suggestive coastal view, dating back to the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, where the rippling waves of the sea hurl themselves impetuously against the coast, can be placed in the production of the painter Marco Ricci (Belluno, 1676 – Venice, 1730), one of the founders of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting.

In his personal expressive style, especially in the initial phase of his painting, the trends of landscape painting present in Italy at the end of the 17th century converge and in particular his debt towards foreign landscape painters working in Venice at the end of the 17th century, such as Johan Anton Eismann, Luca Carlevarijs or Pieter Mulier, known as Il Cavalier Tempesta.

Several scholars have hypothesized that Marco Ricci may have made a trip to Rome at the turn of the century, where he had the opportunity to directly experience the painting of Salvator Rosa, one of the greatest landscape painters of all time, whose works were also present in the homes of the Venetian patricians of the time.

Finally, in this maze of stylistic references we cannot fail to mention the Genoese Alessandro Magnasco, from whom derives an increasingly rapid and fluid brushstroke, met during his stay in Milan during the last decade of the seventeenth century.

The linguistic references just mentioned can be found in many paintings that can be traced back to an early phase of our painter's work (therefore presumably still in the 17th century), to which it would be desirable to also place our canvas: in fact, strong links with 17th-century landscape painting can still be noted, in particular in the use of strong and dark, almost iron-like tones and very accentuated chiaroscuro contrasts, with dark-hued clouds that clutter the sky.

The influence of the painting of Magnasco (to whose hand our canvas was previously linked) is evident, especially in the small figures of fishermen, first intent on extracting a fishing net from the water,
and we can compare its features with the Stormy Navy with Shipwrecked People, North Carolina Museum (https://catalogo.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/scheda/opera/68587/), where the powerful strokes of the brush almost manage to make the roar produced by the waves crashing against the cliff perceptible.

Therefore, based on the stylistic characteristics, the collaboration of the Genoese painter in some details cannot be excluded.

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