A Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola
Sebastiano Ricci
1733
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 84.9 × 35.2 cm (33 7/16 × 13 7/8 in.) framed: 95.4 × 46.2 × 5.4 cm (37 9/16 × 18 3/16 × 2 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1939.1.71
About the Artist
Sebastiano Ricci · 1659–1734
Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734) was born in Belluno, in the Venetian Republic, and received his early training in Venice, where he was apprenticed at age twelve to the Milanese painter Federico Cervelli. Some accounts identify Sebastiano Mazzoni as his first master. A youthful scandal involving an unintended pregnancy and a charge of attempted poisoning led to imprisonment in 1678, from which he was ...