Landscape with Classical Ruins

Landscape with Classical Ruins by Marco Ricci

Medium

etching

Dimensions

plate: 29.4 x 43 cm (11 9/16 x 16 15/16 in.) overall (separate inscription plate): 2.5 x 42.1 cm (1 x 16 9/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1975.30.3

About the Artist

Marco Ricci · 16761730

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...

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