Wilderness Landscape with Two Monks
Marco Ricci
1651 to 1700
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 25.2 x 36 cm (9 15/16 x 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 26 x 37 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1997.12.1
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...