Plate 4: landscape with man leading a pack horse across a wooden bridge, three figures in right foreground, the silhouette of a man standing at a fence beyond, from 'Landscapes'

Plate 4: landscape with man leading a pack horse across a wooden bridge, three figures in right foreground, the silhouette of a man standing at a fence beyond, from 'Landscapes' by Marco Ricci|Carlo Orsolini

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 12 11/16 × 17 1/16 in. (32.2 × 43.4 cm) Sheet: 13 11/16 × 20 1/2 in. (34.8 × 52.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.856

Tags

BridgesMenWomenHorsesLandscapes

About the Artist

Marco Ricci|Carlo Orsolini · 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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