Caricatures of Two Men and a Woman
Marco Ricci
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
16.8 × 23.8 cm (6 5/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82161
About the Artist
Marco Ricci · 1676–1730
Marco Ricci (1676–1730) was born on June 6 in Belluno, in the Republic of Venice, into a family steeped in artistic tradition as the nephew of the renowned Baroque painter Sebastiano Ricci. He received his first instruction in art from his uncle, likely during a period in Milan from 1694 to 1696, before accompanying Sebastiano to Venice in 1696, from which he soon fled amid personal troubles. Ricc...