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MARCO RICCI (BELLUNO 1676-1730 VENICE) JACOB CATS (ALTONA 1741-1799 AMSTERDAM)
View of an Italian hilltown with a horseman and peasants laboring Landscape with cows under a tree
tempera on kidskin signed, dated and inscribed ‘J: Cats inv et fec/ Ao. 1787/ in de vier benaeude
11æ x 17æ in. (29.7 x 44.8 cm) weeken van Amsterdam’, and with inscription ‘Geb. Altona 1741/ Overl.
Amsterdam 1799’ and ‘Coll. W. Gruyter/ Amsterdam/ D. Dirksen’ (verso)
$15,000-25,000
black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash
9 x 12 in. (23 x 30.7 cm)
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 4 July 1984, lot 73.
$3,000-4,000
The Collection of Khalil Rizk, New York.
PROVENANCE:
Nephew of the painter Sebastiano Ricci, Marco Ricci probably started his Willem Gruyter, Sr. (1763-1831 or 1832), or Willem Gruyter, Jr. (1798-1882),
career in his uncle’s workshop in Venice. It has been suggested that he may Amsterdam; Amsterdam, 21-22 October 1879, probably in lots 31-49.
Dirk Dirksen (1821-1885), Rotterdam.
have learned painting in tempera on kidskin in England during a stay with his
Anonymous sale; Doyle, New York, 27 October 1999, lot 2.
uncle around 1712-1716. Upon his return to Venice, Ricci executed numerous
landscapes in this technique, a genre in great demand among European
As the artist noted on the verso of this sheet, this tranquil scene was drawn
collectors at the time (D. Succi and A. Delneri et al., Marco Ricci e il paesaggio
during the ‘four worrisome weeks’ of the Prussian invasion of Amsterdam,
veneto del Settecento, exhib. cat., Belluno, Palazzo Crepadonna, 1993, p. 21).
between 13 September and 10 October 1787.

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